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STATE v. DOWDELL

No. 1604, September Term, 1986.

73 Md. App. 172 (1987)

533 A.2d 695

STATE OF MARYLAND v. JOSEPH DOWDELL AKA CLAUDE DOWDELL

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Denied March 28, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Kurt L. Schmoke, State's Atty., for Baltimore City and Marshall Feldman, Asst. State's Atty., for Baltimore City on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Thomas J. Bollinger, Assigned Public Defender, Towson (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Baltimore, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., and MOYLAN and ALPERT, JJ.

MOYLAN, Judge.

Although the imprecision makes no difference in this particular case, this appeal illustrates, seemingly for the thousandth time, the epidemic tendency to wander back and forth across the federal-state boundary with little thought as to which sovereign law is being invoked. The Sixth Amendment to the Constitution of the United States provides, in pertinent part, "in all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right ... to have the Assistance...

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