Court of Appeals of Maryland January 21, 2011, No. 48 (State v. Walker)

HARRELL, J.

We are approaching an infinite number of cases applying and/or interpreting Maryland Rule 4-215 (or its predecessors) governing waiver of counsel. Although it was observed early-on, regarding a predecessor version of Rule 4-215, that “[t]he wording of the Rule is so simple and plain that no elaboration thereof is necessary or desirable .... [t]he Rule means just what it says....