Maryland Court of Appeals Decisions 2019
Date: December 23, 2019
Docket Number: 18/19
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the circuit court affirming the finding of the administrative law judge (ALJ) that Defendant did not drive under the influence of alcohol in violation of Md. Code Ann.…
Date: December 19, 2019
Docket Number: 15/19
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the circuit court affirming the decision of the administrative law judge (ALJ) concluding that an officer did not have reasonable grounds to believe that Respondent was…
Date: December 19, 2019
Docket Number: 29/19
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court granting Defendant's petition for postconviction relief and ordering a new trial on the ground that…
Date: November 20, 2019
Citation: Slip.Op.
Docket Number: 19/19
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case involving the appropriate standard of review in an appeal on the record from the district court to the circuit court and the interpretation of a promissory note the Court of Appeals reversed the circuit…
Date: November 20, 2019
Citation: Slip.Op.
Docket Number: 4/19
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the Court of Special Appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court finding that the Taneytown City Council violated some provisions of the Open Meetings Act (OMA), Md.…
Date: November 20, 2019
Citation: Slip.Op.
Docket Number: 6/19
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals determining that, to be entitled to habeas corpus relief under Md. Code Ann. Cts. & Jud. Proc. (CJ) 3-702(a), a person must be physically…
Date: October 18, 2019
Docket Number: 8/19
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court convicting Defendant of second-degree assault and misconduct in office, holding that the court did…
Date: August 29, 2019
Docket Number: 34/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the circuit court's grant of preliminary injunctive relief enjoining the State Board of Elections from certifying the 2018 general election ballot with April Ademiluyi's name listed as a…
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number: 41/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the holding of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the juvenile court finding that sixteen-year-old S.K. was involved in distributing child pornography, holding that a…
Date: August 28, 2019
Docket Number: 52/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals overturning Defendant's conviction based on a lack of independent evidence that would corroborate accomplice testimony, holding that Maryland's…
Date: August 26, 2019
Docket Number: 50/18
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case involving the claim of Petitioner, a veteran paramedic/firefighter regarding degenerative meniscal tears in his right knee the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the trial court denying Baltimore…
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 63/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals vacating the circuit court's dismissal of Defendant's motion for modification of sentence without ruling on the merits, holding that where a…
Date: August 23, 2019
Docket Number: 70/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court granting Defendants' motion to dismiss this action brought by a former tenant of a public market in…
Date: August 22, 2019
Docket Number: 43/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals affirming Defendant's conviction of two counts of criminal attempt for his refusal to testify in a murder trial, holding that Defendant failed to…
Date: August 20, 2019
Docket Number: 75/18
Justia Opinion Summary: In this challenge to the action of the Prince George's County Council sitting as the District Council approving a special exception and variance sought by Wal-Mart Real Estate Business Trust regarding an existing store…
Date: August 16, 2019
Docket Number: 62/18
Justia Opinion Summary: In this defamation action, the Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the court of special appeals reversing the trial court's judgment granting judgment at the end of Plaintiff's case in favor of Defendants, holding…
Date: August 15, 2019
Docket Number: 64/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the court of special appeals reversing the trial court's grant of Petitioners' motion for judgment notwithstanding the verdict (JNOV) on the basis that Petitioners were…
Date: August 13, 2019
Docket Number: 38/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgments of the Court of Special Appeals and circuit court dismissing D.L.'s petition for judicial review challenging her involuntary admission to a facility operated by Sheppard Pratt…
Date: August 12, 2019
Docket Number: 17/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Chancery reversed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court denying Defendant's motion to suppress cocaine on the grounds that officers' warrantless search of…
Date: August 9, 2019
Docket Number: 73/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the Court of Special Appeals that Defendant's new sentence imposed after a remand was illegal as "more severe" than his original sentence, holding that two sentences of equal…
Date: August 8, 2019
Docket Number: 57/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Judicial Court reversed the determination of the trial court that the parties in this case intended to form a general partnership, holding that the evidence could not sustain the simultaneous intent to form…
Date: August 6, 2019
Docket Number: 5/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed in part and reversed in part the judgments of the circuit courts in this consolidated appeal concerning judicial review of the most recent permits issued to Carroll County and Frederick…
Date: August 6, 2019
Docket Number: 51/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals affirming the ruling of the circuit court denying Defendant's motion to suppress a gun as evidence and convicting Defendant of one count of…
Date: July 29, 2019
Docket Number: 56/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed in part and affirmed in part the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals reversing the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury assessing estate tax and penalties against a Maryland…
Date: July 17, 2019
Docket Number: 77/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming Defendant's sentence, holding that the State's belated notice to Defendant of his subsequent offender status was a procedural…
Date: July 15, 2019
Docket Number: 66/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court determining that state law preempted a local zoning authority with respect to solar energy generating…
Date: July 12, 2019
Docket Number: 72/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the court of special appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court denying Defendant's petition for postconviction relief alleging ineffective assistance of counsel,…
Date: July 11, 2019
Docket Number: 69/18
Justia Opinion Summary: In these consolidated appeals, the Court of Appeals held that the Justice Reinvestment Act of 2016 (JRA), codified as Md. Code Crim. Proc. 6-223(d), does not grant probationers found to have committed a technical…
Date: July 3, 2019
Docket Number: 58/18
Justia Opinion Summary: In this asbestos mesothelioma civil litigation the court of appeals affirmed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals affirming the judgment of the trial court finding that William Edward Busch contracted…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 1jd/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals suspended Respondent, the Honorable Devy Patterson Russell, for six months without pay from her service as a judge of the district court and set conditions precedent to Respondent's reinstatement of…
Date: June 28, 2019
Docket Number: 36/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals reversing Defendant's conviction, holding that the trial court erred in admitting irrelevant evidence and abused its discretion in weighing the…
Date: June 26, 2019
Docket Number: 59/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the circuit court ruling in favor of a homeowner's association (Association) on its lawsuit against Diane Steele for unpaid assessments, holding that Steele owed the…
Date: June 25, 2019
Docket Number: 53/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals reversing Defendant's conviction for robbery on the ground that the guilty verdict on the robbery charge was legally inconsistent with…
Date: June 25, 2019
Docket Number: 74/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed an administrative law judge's (ALJ) finding that Petitioner was responsible for indicated child neglect under Md. Code Ann. Fam. Law (Fam. Law) 5-701(s), holding that intent or scienter is…
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number: 19/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals upholding the suppression hearing court's denial of Defendant's motion to suppress, holding that evidence of an out-of-court identification…
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number: 33/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed Defendant's conviction for involuntary manslaughter, holding that there was sufficient evidence to convict Defendant of gross negligence involuntary manslaughter for selling heroin to the…
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number: 60/18
Justia Opinion Summary: In this lead-based paint case the Court of Appeals held that the trial court did not abuse its discretion in admitting expert testimony from two of Plaintiff's experts - a vocational rehabilitation expert and an economic…
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number: 65/18
Justia Opinion Summary: In this case involving the correct interpretation of Maryland Rule 4-345(c), the Court of Appeals held that, for a "mistake in the announcement of a sentence" to be "evident" under the statute, the mistake must be clear…
Date: June 24, 2019
Docket Number: 67/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Supreme Court reversed the decision of the Court of Special Appeals reversing the decision of the circuit court affirming the decision of the Workers' Compensation Commission modifying an order that provided Officer…
Date: June 6, 2019
Docket Number: 77/17
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals vacated the judgment of the juvenile court declining to terminate the legal relationship between Mother, Father, and Child and ordering Child into the guardianship and custody of a relative, holding…
Date: May 20, 2019
Docket Number: 18/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court denying Petitioner coram nobis relief, holding that Petitioner waived the grounds underlying both…
Date: May 17, 2019
Docket Number: 68/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals vacated the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals affirming the postconviction court's grant of Defendant's petition for postconviction relief and remanded with instructions to remand the case to…
Date: April 29, 2019
Docket Number: 44/18
Justia Opinion Summary: In this medical malpractice action, the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming the trial court's judgment granting summary judgment in favor of Respondent, holding that, under…
Date: April 22, 2019
Docket Number: 46/18
Justia Opinion Summary: In this class action lawsuit filed by individuals against whom Defendant, an unlicensed debt buyer, obtained judgments in the district court, the Court of Appeals vacated the decision of the Court of Special Appeals…
Date: April 17, 2019
Docket Number: 6/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals affirming Defendant's convictions, holding that this Court had jurisdiction to reach the merits of this appeal and that the trial court erred in…
Date: April 5, 2019
Docket Number: 21/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals held that a proposed municipal annexation that encompassed an area consisting entirely of tax-exempt properties did not require consent from the owners of such properties pursuant to Md. Code Ann.…
Date: April 2, 2019
Docket Number: 20/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the trial court's decision to admit text messages that Defendant sent to his wife's cell phone, holding that the confidential martial communications privilege does not attach to…
Date: April 2, 2019
Docket Number: 31/18
Justia Opinion Summary: In this prosecution under environmental laws the Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals finding that Defendant was deprived of the right to the effective assistance of counsel, holding…
Date: April 2, 2019
Docket Number: 40/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals reversing Defendant's conviction for accessory after the fact to murder and remanding the case for a new trial, holding that application of…
Date: April 2, 2019
Docket Number: 54/18
Justia Opinion Summary: In this criminal case, the Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals affirming Defendant's conviction, holding that the circuit court abused its discretion by asking compound "strong…
Date: April 1, 2019
Docket Number: 27/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals explained in this opinion its reasons underlying its December 7, 2018 order, in which the Court issued an order reversing the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals affirming the decision of the…
Date: April 1, 2019
Docket Number: 32/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals vacating in part the juvenile court's order and determining that the juvenile court erred in ordering $65 in restitution to rekey three household…
Date: April 1, 2019
Docket Number: 35/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the circuit court granting the motion to dismiss filed by Respondent, the Mayor and City Council of Baltimore, as to Taxpayers' complaint for declaratory judgment challenging…
Date: April 1, 2019
Docket Number: 37/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the Court of Special Appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court concluding that Petitioners, Baltimore County taxpayers, lacked standing to challenge the County's…
Date: March 8, 2019
Docket Number: 24/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the court of special appeals affirming in part and reversing in part the judgment of the post-conviction granting Respondent a new trial, holding that certain actions on the…
Date: March 4, 2019
Docket Number: 42/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals affirming the judgment of the circuit court granting summary judgment in favor of Respondent in this action brought by Petitioners seeking to…
Date: February 27, 2019
Docket Number: 28/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the decision of the circuit court affirming the judgment of the district court in favor of Landlord on Landlord’s suit against Tenant seeking to recover unpaid rent that it claimed Tenant…
Date: February 22, 2019
Docket Number: 45/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals vacated the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals dismissing an appeal, on its own initiative, as premature and remanded the case to that court with instructions to treat the notice of appeal as…
Date: January 25, 2019
Docket Number: 69/17
Justia Opinion Summary: In this medical malpractice case, the Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals reversing the circuit court’s judgment in favor of Plaintiff, holding that the trial court’s instructions did…
Date: January 23, 2019
Docket Number: 30/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals, which reversed the determination of the Commissioner of Labor and Industry that the Whiting-Turner Contracting Company violated Md. Code Ann.…
Date: January 22, 2019
Docket Number: 16/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the Hartford County Housing Agency (HCHA) terminating Petitioner’s voucher, holding that the HCHA complied with procedural due process procedures under Maryland law and the…
Date: January 18, 2019
Docket Number: 13/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals reversed the judgment of the Court of Special Appeals affirming the trial court’s denial of Petitioner’s motion for a new trial, holding that the trial court’s error of supplying the jury with an…
Date: January 18, 2019
Docket Number: 22/18
Justia Opinion Summary: The Court of Appeals affirmed the decision of the circuit court affirming the decision of the Mayor and Common Council of Westminster (the Council), holding that substantial evidence in the record as a whole supported…
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