MAHAI v. STATE

No. 41, Sept. Term, 2020.

255 A.3d 1050 (2021)

474 Md. 648

Kenneth MAHAI v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 20, 2021.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Argued by Nancy S. Forster (Forster & LeCompte, Towson, MD), on for Petitioner.

Argued by Daniel J. Jawor , Assistant Attorney General ( Brian E. Frosh , Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore, MD), on brief for Respondent.

Steven M. Klepper, Esquire , Kramon & Graham, P.A., One South Street, Suite 2600, Baltimore, MD, Erica J. Suter, Esquire , Law Offices of Erica J. Suter, LLC, 6301 Ivy Lane, Suite 700, Greenbelt, MD, Megan E. Coleman, Esquire , MarcusBonsib, LLC, 6411 Ivy Lane, Suite 116, Greenbelt, MD, Booth Marcus Ripke, Esquire , Nathans & Biddle, LLP, 120 East Baltimore Street, Suite 1800, Baltimore, MD, J. Bradford McCullough, Esquire , Lerch, Early & Brewer, Chtd., 7600 Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 700, Bethesda, MD, for Amicus Curiae Maryland Criminal Defense Attorneys' Association.

Argued before: Barbera, C.J., McDonald, Watts, Hotten, Getty, Booth, Biran, JJ.


The Court of Special Appeals' denial of an application for leave to appeal is a "winnowing device[] designed to sift precious metal from ordinary silt[,]" similar to this Court's denial of a petition for writ of certiorari. Conaway v. State, 464 Md. 505, 524 n.18, 212 A.3d 348 (2019). The "objective of both processes is the ascertainment...

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