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STATE v. JOHNSON

No. 28, Sept. Term, 2000.

794 A.2d 654 (2002)

143 Md. App. 173

STATE of Maryland v. Stephen Craig JOHNSON.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

March 27, 2002.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Diane E. Keller, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curram, Jr., Attorney General, Baltimore, and Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Attorney for Baltimore County of Towson, on the brief), for appellant.

Janis R. Harvey (Semmes, Bowen & Semmes, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before DAVIS, SONNER, ROBERT L. KARWACKI, (retired, specially assigned) JJ.

SONNER, Judge.

In this appeal, we return to a tragic murder case. The Circuit Court for Baltimore County convicted Stephen Craig Johnson of the murder of his infant son in 1984, and we affirmed the conviction on direct appeal. About fifteen years later, Johnson filed for post-conviction relief, asserting that his trial counsel was substandard because he withdrew Johnson's insanity plea and pursued only a plea of not guilty. The circuit court then ordered a partial...

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