IN RE DEWAYNE H.

[No. 16 (Adv.), September Term, 1981.]

290 Md. 401 (1981)

430 A.2d 76

IN RE: DEWAYNE H.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided June 3, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Maureen O'Ferrall, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, F. Ford Loker, Assistant Attorney General, William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Richard Scherr, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief, for petitioner.

Victoria Salner Keating, Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for respondent.

The cause was argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.


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

Assuming that a mandatory provision of Maryland Rule 915 a that a "disposition hearing [in a juvenile proceeding] shall be held no later than thirty days after the conclusion of the adjudicatory hearing" is applicable at the level of a juvenile court master, we shall here hold that a trial judge erred when he concluded that dismissal of the proceeding was the proper sanction for disobedience by the master.

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