HARRISON v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

No. 88-6857.

890 F.2d 676 (1989)

Carroll E. HARRISON, Petitioner-Appellant, v. WARDEN, MARYLAND PENITENTIARY, Respondent-Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided November 24, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ned Greenberg (Richard Jeffery Wilson, Nancy L. Cook, Washington, D.C., David Sapp, Student Attorney, Washington College of Law, American University, Appellate Advocacy Clinic, on brief) for petitioner-appellant.

Gwynn X. Kinsey, Jr. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Cathleen C. Brockmeyer, Asst. Atty. Gen., Crim. Appeals Div., Baltimore, Md., on brief) for respondent-appellee.

Before POWELL, Associate Justice (Retired), United States Supreme Court, sitting by designation, MURNAGHAN and WILKINS, Circuit Judges.


PER CURIAM:

The questions presented are whether appellant understood the nature of the charges against him when he pled guilty and whether the trial judge's passion prevented him from fairly determining whether appellant's guilty plea was voluntary. We find that appellant did understand the nature of the charges against him and that we need not address the question of the trial judge's passion because it was not raised below. Accordingly, we affirm the judgment of...

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