Court Opinion

ID: 9455766
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-04 19:32:28.886471+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T17:34:43.574122
License: Public Domain

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING
Although we think Maryland’s petition for rehearing should be denied, we are not unsympathetic with the expressed perplexity of her attorney general regarding the proper remedy on remand. We adhere to our decision that the right to counsel in a juvenile waiver proceeding must be accorded retro-activity. Without delimiting the range of remedies left open by Kent v. United States, 383 U.S. 541, 86 S.Ct. 1045, 16 L.Ed.2d 84 (1966), we think the proper remedy for this petitioner, on the facts of this case, will be the reconstruction in the Maryland courts, or failing that in the United States District Court, of the circumstances bearing on the waiver question and a determination nunc pro tunc or what the juvenile court judge would probably have done in light of all the information then available that might reasonably have been proffered by competent counsel.
If Kemplen was not represented by counsel at his waiver hearing, or if notice of that hearing was inadequate, or both, these factors alone will not entitle him to relief from his conviction. But either one will entitle him to a de novo determination of whether, “waiver was appropriate.” Kent, supra, at 565, 86 S.Ct. 1045. If the court finds that waiver was inappropriate, Kemplen’s conviction must be vacated. He may not be tried again because he has served his full adult sentence and is over 21. If it finds that the waiver order was appropriate when made, despite lack of counsel and/or lack of proper notice his adult conviction will stand and relief will be denied.
Upon poll of the court on the suggestion for rehearing en banc, Judge Bryan voted in favor and the other members of the court voted against.
The petition for rehearing, and for rehearing en banc, is denied.