Wood v. Director, Patuxent Institution

This Court has heretofore reviewed the present application for leave to appeal from an order of Judge Robert E. Clapp, Jr., sitting in the Circuit Court for Frederick County, denying applicant’s petition for relief under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act. See Wood v. Director, 5 Md. App. 289. We remanded the case to enable the lower court to determine whether a plea of nolo contendere and a sentence of imprisonment thereafter constituted a “conviction” within the meaning of Md. Code, Art. 31B, § 6, in view of the provision in Md. Rule 723 c, which authorizes the acceptance of such a…