SMITH v. STATE

No. 1210, September Term, 1986.

71 Md. App. 165 (1987)

524 A.2d 117

MICHAEL CARLTON SMITH v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

April 20, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Ralph Birt, Jr., Assigned Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, Alexander Williams, Jr., State's Atty. for Prince George's County and David M. Simpson, Asst. State's Atty. for Prince George's County of Upper Marlboro, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before ALPERT, ROBERT M. BELL and WENNER, JJ.


ALPERT, Judge.

Unwilling to spend the rest of his life behind bars, appellant Michael Carlton Smith challenges his conviction, inter alia, on the basis that he was denied his right of self-representation. The facts are as follows.

On November 19, 1985, appellant was named in a twenty-four count indictment alleging the commission of first and second degree rape, false imprisonment, kidnapping, assault with intent to murder, assault and battery, weapons...

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