Barnes v. State

KARWACKI, Judge.

In the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, on March 5, 1986, Vernon Barnes, the appellant, tendered Alford 1 pleas to one count of second degree murder and one count of use of a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence. He was sentenced to 30 years in prison for second degree murder and to a concurrent 20 year term of imprisonment for the handgun offense. We granted the appellant’s timely application for leave to appeal from those judgments, and we now consider his contention that the trial judge’s participation in the plea bargaining process rendered appellant’s guilty…