Circuit Court for Calvert County
Case No. 04-K-80-000134
Argued on: June 2, 2016
IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND
No. 104
September Term, 2015
STATE OF MARYLAND
v.
LAWRENCE JOHNSON
Barbera, C.J.
Greene
Adkins
McDonald
Watts
Hotten
Battaglia, Lynne A. (Retired,
Specially Assigned),
JJ.
PER CURIAM ORDER
Filed: June 3, 2016
STATE OF MARYLAND * IN THE
* COURT OF APPEALS
v. * OF MARYLAND
* No. 104
LAWRENCE JOHNSON * September Term, 2015
PER CURIAM ORDER
Upon consideration of the papers and pleadings filed in this
matter as of the date of oral argument before the Court on June 2,
2016, and the arguments made that day, it is this 3rd day of June,
2016,
ORDERED, by the Court of Appeals of Maryland, that the
judgment of the Court of Special Appeals entered in this case be,
and it is hereby, vacated and the case is remanded to that Court
with directions to remand the case to the Circuit Court for Calvert
County to conduct an evidentiary hearing on Respondent’s Petition
for Post Conviction Relief and to make a determination of whether
Respondent expressly waived the right to post conviction relief.
Costs in this Court and the Court of Special Appeals to be divided
between the parties.
/s/ Mary Ellen Barbera_
Chief Judge