JOHNSON v. STATE

No. 128, Sept. Term, 1998.

735 A.2d 1003 (1999)

355 Md. 420

Leonard O. JOHNSON v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 24, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy S. Forster, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Rachel Marblestone Kamins, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, RAKER, WILNER and THEODORE G. BLOOM (Retired, specially assigned), JJ.


CHASANOW, Judge.

In this appeal, we are called upon to decide whether a circuit court judge with exclusive original jurisdiction may determine that a defendant waived the right to counsel based on information provided to the defendant at his or her bail review hearing before a District Court judge. Specifically, we are being asked to determine whether waiver of counsel by inaction, as detailed in Maryland Rule 4-215(d),...

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