Court Opinion

ID: 9693449
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-25 16:41:57.605509+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:19:47.114612
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Cole, J.,

concurring in part and dissenting in part:

I agree that the right to be present at every stage of the proceeding is personal to the defendant and requires his express waiver. I disagree that there has been any change in circumstance since we last decided this principle in Bunch v. State, 281 Md. 680, 381 A.2d 1142 (1978) or reaffirmed it in Porter v. State, 289 Md. 349, 424 A.2d 371 (1981), to justify attenuating this principle.
Judge Davidson authorizes me to state that she concurs in the views expressed herein.