IN RE ELRICH S.

No. 101, September Term, 2009.

5 A.3d 27 (2010)

416 Md. 15

In re ELRICH S.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 24, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc A. DeSimone, Jr. , Asst. Public Defender ( Elizabeth L. Julian , Acting Public Defender, of Baltimore, MD), on brief, for petitioner/cross-respondent.

Robert Taylor, Jr. , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Douglas F. Gansler , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, of Baltimore, MD), on brief, for respondent/cross-petitioner.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, GREENE, MURPHY, ADKINS, BARBERA, and JOHN C. ELDRIDGE (Retired, Specially Assigned) JJ.


ADKINS, J.

During a hearing to vacate Petitioner's earlier delinquency adjudication, the judge charged the Office of the Public Defender ("OPD") with "essentially post convicting [its] own lawyers" and ordered it to panel the case to an attorney wholly independent of that office. Petitioner was claiming ineffective assistance of counsel, and the judge was concerned that the self-damning affidavit submitted by Petitioner's previous OPD trial counsel was the product...

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