IN RE JEFFREY L.

No. 371, September Term, 1981.

50 Md. App. 268 (1981)

437 A.2d 255

IN RE: JEFFREY L.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided December 4, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael R. Malloy, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Jane Pilliod, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, and Melanie Fishkind, Assistant State's Attorney for Prince George's County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before LOWE, MASON and MacDANIEL, JJ.


LOWE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

If strict compliance with legislatively or judicially enacted procedural protections for defendants wastes the valuable time of overburdened courts (as most taxpayers and even trial judges protest), repetition is a far greater waste when requirements are ignored and, after an appeal, compliance is compelled nonetheless. Probably the most hackneyed phrase in Maryland appellate records is the admonition to both bench and...

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