STATE v. WISCHHUSEN

No. 100, Sept. Term, 1995.

677 A.2d 595 (1996)

342 Md. 530

STATE of Maryland v. George WISCHHUSEN, Jr.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 10, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Jennifer Landis, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Martha Weisheit, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ., and JOHN F. McAULIFFE, Judge (retired), Specially Assigned.


RAKER, Judge.

The question presented in this case is whether the trial court erred in failing to apply Maryland Rule 4-215, governing a defendant's waiver of the right to counsel, when the defendant agreed to proceed in the absence of counsel while the court considered a question raised by the jury during deliberations and subsequently reinstructed the jury. Although Rule 4-215 does not apply to waiver decisions made after...

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