Opinion ID: 2424378
Heading Depth: 1
Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Pincus

Text: After the indictment charging Pincus with having feloniously, wilfully and of deliberately premeditated malice aforethought murdered Robert Alverson was read to him, [the trial judge] questioned the defendant at length concerning his guilty plea to second degree murder. He ascertained from Pincus' personal responses that he understood that he was charged with having murdered Alverson on September 30, 1979, and he personally acknowledged to the judge that he committed the offense. The record discloses that Pincus said he knew the difference between first and second degree murder and had pled guilty to the latter degree of murder because the punishment was less than for first degree murder. The factual basis for the plea showed that after Pincus stabbed the victim five or six times he thereafter stomped upon him with his shoes until he was dead. Pincus said he committed the murder because the victim had disturbed him, and he had become emotional as a result. Priet, 289 Md. at 291-92, 424 A.2d at 361.