Alston v. State

Robert W. Alston seeks leave to appeal from a denial of post conviction relief by the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County.

A review of the record before us discloses that Alston is literally the victim of the type of predicament one finds in the popular novel, Catch-22. 1 He has sought relief in the circuit court and in the courts of the District of Columbia, but both have turned a deaf ear to his supplications to assuage his distress.

The facts from which the application has grown are uncommon, if not extreme.

On December 4, 1975, Alston pled guilty, as the result of a plea bargain, to the…