199 Md. App. 130 - Sinclair v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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9 state decisions

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1. “Here, in Sinclair's criminal cause, the judgment of conviction has been final for many years, and Sinclair does not challenge that conviction in this proceeding. Under these circumstances, Maryland law does not recognize the filing of a declaratory judgment action in a criminal cause, even if the object of the declaratory judgment action is to obtain a ruling concerning a collateral consequence of the conviction.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 235 Md. App. 335 - Campbell v. State

2. “Declaratory judgment has been recognized as the procedure for obtaining, under appropriate circumstances, a ruling on the constitutionality of a statute, the violation of which carries criminal sanctions.”). Cf. Lawrence v. Texas, 539 U.S. 558, 575 , 123 S.Ct. 2472, 2482 , 156 L.Ed.2d 508 (2003) (including the sex offender registration requirement as one of the”

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

3. “It is sufficient for the present to hold, as we do, that a petition for a declaratory judgment may not be filed in a criminal cause.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 235 Md. App. 335 - Campbell v. State