Court of Special Appeals of Maryland April 19, 1979, 971, September Term, 1978 (State v. Strickland)

Gilbert, C. J.,

delivered the opinion of the Court.

The appellee, James Linwood Strickland, for whatever else he may lack, suffers not for want of

chutzpah.

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Strickland set out to bribe Judge Sylvania W. Woods, a District Court Judge in Prince George’s County. The purpose of the bribe was to have Judge Woods show leniency toward a friend of Strickland who had a case pending before the judge.