WOOTEN-BEY v. STATE

No. 114, September Term, 1988.

318 Md. 301 (1990)

568 A.2d 16

RONALD NATHANIEL WOOTEN-BEY v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 10, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Braudes, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Diane E. Keller, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.


BLACKWELL, Judge.

In this criminal case, we are asked to determine whether the trial judge improperly prohibited attorney-client discussions during a lunch recess, allegedly in violation of the defendant's right to the assistance of counsel under the Sixth Amendment. We hold there is no constitutional violation under the circumstances.

The relevant portion of the record which contains the issue is found at the end of defense counsel's direct examination of...

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