Ingersoll v. State

ROBERT M. BELL, Judge.

Once again we are presented squarely with an issue— when is a decision to enter a plea of not guilty upon an agreed statement of facts not the functional equivalent to a guilty plea? — which we thought we laid to rest in Ward v. State, 52 Md.App. 664, 451 A.2d 1243 (1982). Perhaps because of the factual context in which the issue arose in Ward, the feeling persists, in some quarters, that except as limited by Ward, this “hybrid plea” 1 is always the functional equivalent of a guilty plea. In affirming the judgment of the Circuit Court for Baltimore County, we once again…