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IN RE EMILEIGH

No. 53, Sept. Term, 1998.

724 A.2d 639 (1999)

353 Md. 30

In re EMILEIGH F.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 18, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy S. Forster, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

C.J. Messerschmidt, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen.; Judith L. Fitzgerald, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, and THEODORE G. BLOOM (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

RAKER, Judge.

We granted certiorari to consider whether litigants in a Child in Need of Assistance proceeding pursuant to MD.CODE ANN., CTS. & JUD. PROC. § 3-801 et seq.1 have a right to present closing argument. We shall hold that they do.

I.

This case arises out of an order of the District Court of Maryland for Montgomery County, sitting as a juvenile court, awarding custody of Emileigh F., a child adjudged...

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