42 Md. App. 276 - Beard v. State’s Empirical Analysis
1979
Citation profile
26 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 26 later decisions — most recently April 2010 · most notably Parren v. State (1987), Harris v. State (1999)
26 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Applies 18 U.S.C. § 371
Relies on North Carolina v. Pearce · Iannelli v. United States · Milanovich v. United States · Ethridge v. United States · Newton v. State
Most-quoted passages
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“"This was not a waiver of counsel. Counsel had represented appellant throughout the trial and continued to represent him during his address to the jury and afterward. Rule 723 [ [1] ] is simply not applicable to this situation. [Emphasis added.] The inquiry mandated by ... that Rule applies to a defendant's initial appearance and `to any proceeding at which he appears without counsel thereafter.' [Emphasis supplied.] At best, appellant's address may have approached what has become known as `hybrid representation'...." (Citations omitted.)”
1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
How this case has been treated — in progress
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