106 Md. App. 642 - Felder v. State’s Empirical Analysis

Citation profile

8 state decisions

Most-quoted passages

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1. “In a desperate effort to keep the trial traffic flowing, we encourage a trial judge to warn a defendant in stern terms that he may be forced to trial without a lawyer if he fails to make timely efforts to obtain one. To reverse the trial judge in this case would be to teU judges generally that their stem, words are, when push comes to shove, a meaningless bluff. We would be telling them that in their efforts to keep a beleaguered production line moving they may admonish litigants about the penis of failing to adhere to time limits, but that they are then powerless to back up their words with action. We decline to do so.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 171 Md. App. 297 - Broadwater v. State