MATTER OF TRADER

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary Elizabeth Kurz, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Milton B. Allen, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, Howard B. Merker and James Schneider, Assistant State's Attorneys for Baltimore City, on the brief, for appellant.

Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, and Alfred J. O'Ferrall, III, Deputy Public Defender, with whom were Richard T. Cremin, Mae S. Sinsheimer and Geraldine Kenney Sweeney on the brief, for appellee.

Amicus Curiae brief filed by Family and Juvenile Law Section, Maryland State Bar Association, Carville M. Downes on the brief.

The cause was argued before ORTH, C.J., and MORTON and THOMPSON, JJ.