Court Opinion

ID: 9733651
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:12:59.321824+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:43.100270
License: Public Domain

ELDRIDGE, Judge
dissenting:
I agree with the conclusion of the trial judge and with Judge Robert Bell’s opinion for the Court of Special Appeals, In re Keith G., 86 Md.App. 662, 587 A.2d 1164 (1991), that dismissal of the juvenile delinquency petition ordinarily is the appropriate sanction where the intake officer exceeded the time limit mandated by Maryland Code (1974, 1989 Repl.Vol., 1991 Cum.Supp.), § 3-810 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article, and where the intake officer failed to obtain an extension of time from the court as provided for in § 3-810(e)(2). In fact, it is the express provision for a court-ordered extension of time which confirms the legislative intent that dismissal of the petition should ordinarily be the sanction where the intake officer’s investigation exceeds the statutory time limit. If the General Assembly had intended that dismissal not be the sanction, there would have been no reason to have provided for a court-ordered extension.