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STATE v. BITTINGER

No. 157, September Term, 1986.

314 Md. 96 (1988)

549 A.2d 10

STATE OF MARYLAND v. JOHN CLAYTON BITTINGER.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 31, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Norman L. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Jose Felipe Anderson and George E. Burns, Jr., Asst. Public Defenders (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH, McAULIFFE and ADKINS, JJ.

McAULIFFE, Judge.

On September 2, 1986, Judge Theodore Eschenburg of the Circuit Court for Worcester County conducted a proceeding to determine whether the guilty plea of John Clayton Bittinger should be accepted. What might have been a routine proceeding went awry for two basic reasons — the defendant's trial attorney1 carefully orchestrated the proceedings to produce a result which was the very antithesis of his plea, and the...

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