Turner v. State, Public Defender

GILBERT, Chief Judge.

This case arises from yet another hard fought battle between the “Public Defenders” and the “State’s Attorneys.” The facts from which this particular litigation ensued occurred on August 19, 1982, on the softball playing field, not in the courtroom where the parties engage in “hardball.”

At the time of the incident, Robert C. Turner, a member of the Bar, was employed in the Office of the Public Defender as an attorney. Turner was also a member of the “Public Defenders,” a team that played in the “Lawyer’s League” of Baltimore.

From the record we learn that in the game…