Petitions for Writ of Certiorari -- April 2018

PETITIONS FOR WRIT OF CERTIORARI

September Term, 2017

 

Denied April 9, 2018

Freedom Village Shopping Center v. Elders Luers, L.P. - Pet. Docket No. 436

 

Granted April 9, 2018

Rodney Lee Agnew v. State of Maryland - Case No. 9, September Term, 2018

Issues – Criminal Law –Was a recorded communication on a cell phone between Petitioner and an unidentified speaker intercepted in violation of the Md. Wiretap Statute and erroneously admitted at trial when there was no enumerated exception for its admissibility?
 

Ronald Cornish v. State of Maryland - Case No. 12, September Term, 2018

Issue – Criminal Law – Where a criminal defendant has satisfied all the pleading requirements entitling him to a hearing on his motion for a new trial pursuant to Md. Rule 4-331 (c) and (f) and the trial court summarily denies the motion without a hearing, does an appellate court err in affirming the trial court by ruling on the merits of the motion?
 

David Leander Ford v. State of Maryland - Case No. 11, September Term, 2018

Issues – Criminal Law – 1) Did the trial court err in allowing the State to introduce evidence of the victim’s character for peacefulness, in a homicide case, when, in his opening statement, the defendant clearly stated that the victim was the first aggressor and suggested that evidence would be introduced to prove it? 2) What is the correct standard for determining whether a defendant’s conduct is too ambiguous or equivocal to be admissible as evidence of “consciousness of guilt”? 3) Did the trial court err in allowing, as evidence of consciousness of guilt, the State’s witness to testify about Petitioner’s reaction to being told that he had to leave her home?
 

Darryl Nichols v. State of Maryland - Case No. 8, September Term, 2018

Issues – Criminal Procedure – 1) Can the law of the case doctrine bar a claim of an illegal sentence for failure to properly raise the issue on appeal, despite Maryland Rule 4-345’s provision that a court may correct an illegal sentence at any time?  2) Is Petitioner’s total sentence of 80 years of imprisonment, which was imposed at resentencing, an illegal increase from his previous total sentence of life with all but 50 years suspended?
 

Bradford Owusu v. Motor Vehicle Administration - Case No. 10, September Term, 2018

Issues – Transportation – 1) Is it a violation of due process and a failure to “fully advise” a driver of the administrative penalties that shall be imposed for refusing a breath test pursuant to Transp. §16-205.1 when, after reading the MVA’s DR-15 advice form, a police officer’s oral restatement of the penalties for failing and refusing a breath test omits the most severe mandatory penalty for refusal? 2) Is the DR-15 form’s failure to advise suspected drunk drivers of the length of time the ignition interlock would be required in the event of a refusal – one year – a violation of due process and a failure to “fully advise” a driver of the administrative penalties that shall be imposed for refusing a breath test pursuant to Transp. §16-205.1?
 

Denied April 20, 2018

Ali-Fuller v. Moyer - Pet. Docket No. 480
Backyard Paradise of Edgewood v. Walker - Pet. Docket No. 492
Bell v. Driscoll - Pet. Docket No. 515
Best, Manuel v. State - Pet. Docket No. 525
Bey v. Smith, Clark, Coleman, et al. - Pet. Docket No. 517
Bird v. WMATA - Pet. Docket No. 486
Bullock v. Dane Equities - Pet. Docket No. 481
Butler, Thomas Warren v. State - Pet. Docket No. 18 *
Colkley, Clayton Daman v. State - Pet. Docket No. 493
Dorsey, Alfred v. State - Pet. Docket No. 513
Estate of Geier v. Md. Board of Physicians - Pet. Docket No. 10 *
Evstegneev, Vasiliy v. State - Pet. Docket No. 462
Graham, Edward v. State - Pet. Docket No. 522
Grandison, Anthony v. State - Pet. Docket No. 455
Grant v. Rosenburg - Pet. Docket No. 518
Hatchett, Timothy v. State - Pet. Docket No. 1 *
Hoang v. Diamond - Pet. Docket No. 508
In re: Adoption/G'ship of K.L. - Pet. Docket No. 504
Jackson v. Secretary of Housing - Pet. Docket No. 397
Jeffries v. Ward - Pet. Docket No. 519
Jones, Antomar v. State - Pet. Docket No. 450
Jones, Jeffery L. v. State - Pet. Docket No. 516
Keyser, Richard E., Jr. v. State - Pet. Docket No. 505
Lindsey, Marcus Jamal v. State - Pet. Docket No. 495
Mayhew, Brian Cuffie v. State - Pet. Docket No. 7 *
McMahon v. Robey - Pet. Docket No. 512
Mua v. California Casualty Indemnity Exchange - Pet. Docket No. 484
Randall v. Gresov - Pet. Docket No. 511
Raver v. Beckman - Pet. Docket No. 497
Robinson, Vashon K. v. State - Pet. Docket No. 478
Shaw, James A. v. State - Pet. Docket No. 24 * 
Shaw v. SMS Assist - Pet. Docket No. 509
Shulman v. Rosenberg - Pet. Docket No. 487
Skibicki v. Fairmont Plaza - Pet. Docket No. 526
Spector v. Liffman - Pet. Docket No. 17 *
Temple, Davon v. State - Pet. Docket No. 523
Wiles v. WIles - Pet. Docket No. 502
Wireless One v. Mayor & Council of Baltimore - Pet. Docket No. 507
Yadav v. Pindell Woods Homeowners Ass'n - Pet. Docket No. 510




* Sept. Term, 2018

Granted April 27, 2018

Linda H. Lamone v. Nancy Lewin, et al. - Case No. 85, September Term, 2017

Issue – Election Law – Did the trial court err in entering a preliminary injunction that requires Appellant to remove the name of a candidate from the ballot for the 2018 primary election, where the statutory deadlines have passed, laches bars the relief ordered, removal at this late date will disrupt the orderly process of the election and other, less disruptive, relief is available?