FORSTER v. PUBLIC DEFENDER

No. 92, Sept. Term, 2011.

45 A.3d 180 (2012)

426 Md. 565

Nancy S. FORSTER v. STATE of Maryland, OFFICE OF the PUBLIC DEFENDER.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 22, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew M. Dansicker (Law Office of Andrew M. Dansicker, LLC, Hunt Valley, MD), on brief, for appellant.

Adam D. Snyder , Asst. Atty. Gen. ( Douglas F. Gansler , Atty. Gen. of Maryland, Baltimore MD), on brief, for appellee.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, ADKINS, BARBERA, DALE R. CATHELL (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.


HARRELL, J.

Appellant, Nancy Forster, challenges her termination from the position of State Public Defender. A year-long disagreement between Forster and the Board of Trustees (the Board) of the Office of Public Defender ("the Office") (collectively referred to as "the State") over operation of the Office culminated penultimately in a letter from the Board to Forster demanding a suite of management and personnel changes in the Office, accompanied with a warning that...

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