Lifshutz v. State

This is an appeal from a denial of the appellant’s motion to withdraw his plea of nolo contendere after he had been sentenced to a term of three years by Judge Anderson in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County for criminal activities in connection with a savings and loan association. The appellant challenges the denial of his motion under the “law of the land” clause of the Maryland Declaration of Rights and the Due Process clause of the Fourteenth Amendment to the United States Constitution, and under Maryland Rule 722. He contends that neither the court below nor his own counsel apprised…