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BOWERS v. STATE

No. 111, September Term, 1989.

320 Md. 416 (1990)

578 A.2d 734

MARSELLE JEROME BOWERS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

September 4, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Judith R. Catterton (Catterton, Kemp & Mason, Rockville), both on brief, for appellant.

Richard B. Rosenblatt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore), both on brief, for appellee.

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

ADKINS, Judge.

In this case we shall hold that Marselle Jerome Bowers was denied his sixth amendment right to effective assistance of counsel during his 1982 trial for murder. We must, therefore, set aside his conviction.

I.

We sketch the procedural background of the case. On 16 September 1981, Bowers was charged with murder. Following a jury trial in the Circuit Court for Charles County, he was convicted, on 17 September 1982, of premeditated first...

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