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   State Courts - Maryland - October 26 - October 31, 2006

  
Higginbotham v. PSC, No. 2346, SEPTEMBER TERM, 2004, COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND, October 26, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Because a state employee did not have a protected property interest in his job under Md. Code Ann., State Pers. & Pens. § 11-305(a)-(b) (1993, 2004 Repl. Vol.), his procedural and substantive due process claims under Md. Const. Decl. Rights art. 24 against the Maryland Public Service Commission and its chairman were dismissed.

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Hurst v. State, No. 1951, September Term, 2004, COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND, October 26, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Where defendant was charged with rape, the trial court did not err in admitting testimony of a woman who claimed that defendant raped her 20 years earlier because the similarities between the two offenses weighed in favor of admitting the other crimes evidence under Md. R. 5-404(b), despite the passage of time between the two offenses.

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Broadwater v. State, No. 0215, September Term, 2005, COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND, October 27, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Defendant was properly convicted of drunk driving after waiving counsel by inaction because judges at both the district and circuit court levels adequately advised her of her rights pursuant to Md. R. 4-215(a)(1)-(5) over the course of several court appearances; the Rule did not require that all such warnings to be given at a single appearance.

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Magnetti v. Univ. of Md., No. 2492, September Term, 2005, COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND, October 27, 2006, Filed
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Overview: The one-year limitation period under Md. Code Ann., State Gov't §§ 12-201 and 12-202 applied to a terminated instructor's breach of contract suit against a university, and sovereign immunity was not been waived under Md. Code Ann., Educ. § 12-104(b)(3); therefore, the suit was properly dismissed.

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Baby v. State, No. 225, September Term, 2005, COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND, October 30, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Appellant's conviction of first-degree rape and other crimes was reversed, because the trial court erred in refusing appellant's request to instruct the jury that it should return a verdict of not guilty of rape if it was persuaded by the evidence that the complainant consented to intercourse, but withdrew her consent after penetration.

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Ridgeway v. Ridgeway, No. 757, September Term, 2005, No. 2504, September Term, 2005, COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND, October 30, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Decision pursuant to Md. Code Ann., Fam. Law § 11-107(b) modifying an individual's alimony payment after his retirement, but not terminating it, was affirmed where the evidence showed that the former wife's expenses had not decreased. Pursuant to Md. Code Ann., Fam. Law § 11-110, the circuit court properly awarded the wife attorney's fees.

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Atty. Griev. Comm'n v. Vares, Misc. Docket AG No. 23, September Term, 2006, COURT OF APPEALS OF MARYLAND, October 31, 2006, Decided
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Sommer v. Rhoads, No. 1267, September Term, 2005, COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND, October 31, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Attorney's lien against a former client's cause of action for work performed before the client's bankruptcy survived under Md. Code Ann., Bus. Occ. & Prof. § 10-501, subject to a determination of whether the attorney produced a favorable judgment for the client, even though the attorney did not give the notice required under Md. R. 2-652.

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Taxi, LLC v. Mayor of Baltimore, No. 2023, September Term, 2005, COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND, October 31, 2006, Filed
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Overview: Order vacating judgment foreclosing City's right of redemption on property was vacated as certificate of tax sale carried with it presumption under Md. Code Ann., Tax-Prop. § 14-823 that taxes were validly owed. City failed to meet its burden to show that taxes were paid before tax sale and that trial court lacked jurisdiction to enter judgment.

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