IN RE KEITH G.

No. 60 September Term, 1991.

325 Md. 538 (1992)

601 A.2d 1107

IN RE KEITH G.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 26, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Cathleen C. Brockmeyer, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief) Baltimore, for petitioner.

Jose Felipe Anderson, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, both on brief) Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW and KARWACKI, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge of the Court of Appeals of MD (Retired) Specially Assigned.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

The question presented is whether dismissal of a juvenile delinquency petition is an appropriate sanction where the intake officer's preliminary inquiry exceeded, without a court order, the time requirement prescribed by Maryland Code (1984, 1991 Cum.Supp.), § 3-810 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article. That section, a part of the Juvenile Causes Act, provides in pertinent part:

"(a) Except as provided in subsection (b...

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