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WARD v. STATE

No. 1576, September Term, 1989.

83 Md. App. 474 (1990)

575 A.2d 771

BERNARD LEON WARD, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 28, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lester V. Jones (Frederic C. Heyman on the brief), Bel Air, for appellant.

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore and Frank R. Weathersbee, State's Atty. for Anne Arundel County, Annapolis, on the brief), for appellee.

Submitted before ROSALYN B. BELL, KARWACKI, and WENNER, JJ.

ROSALYN B. BELL, Judge.

The question presented by Bernard Leon Ward, Jr., appellant, is whether the trial judge erred by accepting his Alford plea.1 At the close of all the evidence, Ward pleaded guilty, while denying his guilt in order to avoid greater punishment, despite conflicting testimony concerning his whereabouts on the date and time of the crime.

The State raises a question of jurisdiction, namely, whether a direct...

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