114 Md. App. 678 - State v. Dorsey’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. ““This is the defendant Larry Emmanuel Dorsey’s motion to dismiss the indictment against him, for an alleged violation of Rule 4-271, a mandate that he come to trial within 180 days either within his first appearance of the Court, or first appearance of counsel, unless the matter is continued by the Administrative judge or his designee for good cause shown. “My review of the Court file and the documents submitted into evidence allows me to make the following findings of fact. On October 5th, 1995, Mr. Dorsey appeared before the Court for an arraignment, that was his first appearance before the Circuit Court on these charges. A trial was set for April 1st, 1996. “Mr. Dorsey did not appear for that trial, having turned himself in on a bench warrant the day before in Montgomery County. That on April 1st, 1996, counsel for Mr, Dorsey notified both the Court and the prosecuting counsel that Mr. Dorsey was being held in the County Detention Center in Montgomery County. “On April 1st, 1996, the trial judge, Judge Ahalt, issued a bench warrant as a detainer on these charges to hold Mr. Dorsey pending resolution of the charges in Montgomery County. April 17th, 1996, 180 days from Mr. Dorsey’s first appearance on October 20th, 1996—that should be ’95. On April 1st, 1996, Judge Ahalt was neither the Administrative Judge of the Circuit Court of Prince George’s County, nor the administrative judge’s designee for the purpose of Rule 4-271. “There had been no finding of good cause by either ”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dorsey v. State

2. ““[T]he [petitioner], by his deliberate actions, sought to bring about the necessary postponement of his scheduled April 1 trial. He only turned himself in to Montgomery County authorities the evening before trial after consulting his attorney. We conclude that he was fully appraised of the necessary consequences that would flow from that action. Whether he deliberately sought to manipulate the system so as to cause a Hicks problem or whether he simply sought to avoid trial on April 1, the common denominator end that he sought was that he would not go to trial on that day.” “Whatever his motive, noble or ignoble, [the petitioner] consciously and deliberately and with full advice of counsel sought to forfend his scheduled trial date of April 1. His was no mere verbal request which could have been denied. He, rather, created a situation where the end he was seeking was a guaranteed result. His calculated actions made the result inevitable. He may not now reap the reward of never having to answer for his crimes because the judge who was forced to deliver to him the very result he sought happened to be an ordinary judge rather than an administrative judge.” '”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Dorsey v. State

3. “The intervention of the administrative judge or that judge’s designee is critical because it is the administrative judge who has an overall view of the court’s business, who is responsible “for the administration of the court,” who assigns trial judges, who “supervise(s) the assignment of actions for trial,” who supervises the court personnel involved in the assignment of cases, and who receives reports from such personnel, and “(c)onsequently, the administrative judge is ordinarily in a much better position than another judge of the trial court, or an appellant court, to make the judgment as to whether good cause for postponement of a criminal case exists.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 152 Md. App. 640 - State v. Price