ELLISON v. STATE

No. 126, September Term, 1983.

56 Md. App. 567 (1983)

468 A.2d 413

CLINTON ELLISON, APPELLANT, v. STATE OF MARYLAND, APPELLEE.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

December 12, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence W. Sharp, Assigned Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender on brief, for appellant.

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen., with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Kurt L. Schmoke, State's Atty. for Baltimore City, Peter M. Semel and Timothy Doory, Asst. State's Attys. for Baltimore City, on brief, for appellee.

Argued before MOYLAN, ALPERT and GETTY, JJ.


GETTY, Judge.

Plea agreements are tolerated upon the assumption that they play an integral role in conserving judicial manpower and reducing backlogs of pending criminal cases. As we shall see from the present controversy, "it ain't necessarily so."

Clinton Ellison, appellant herein, advances five reasons why his convictions of murder and underlying felonies should be reversed. The linchpin of his attack upon the trial process, and the single argument presented...

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