SCHEDULE OF ORAL ARGUMENTS
September Term, 2026
Monday, November 2, 2026:
Bar Admissions
AG No. 26 (2025 T.) Attorney Grievance Commission v. Roland Patrick Brown
No. 17 Duane Garlitz v. State of Maryland
Issue – Criminal Law – Can a reasonable probability of tampering be negated in order to authenticate evidence pursuant to Maryland Rule 5-901 where a controlled purchase involves a confidential informant, who is subsequently unavailable to testify and whose transaction cannot be corroborated by police?
Wednesday, November 4, 2026:
AG No. 14 (2025 T.) Attorney Grievance Commission v. Tiffany Fountaine Boykin
No. 14 Harford County, Maryland v. Aaron Penman
Issue – Local Government – Is Respondent, a sheriff’s deputy, disqualified by Charter § 207 from simultaneously holding office as a County Councilmember and a deputy because Respondent’s employment as a deputy is employment by the government of the State of Maryland?
Monday, November 9, 2026:
No. 11 State of Maryland v. J.C.
Issue – Torts – Where the Child Victims Act of 2023 expands only the “time for filing” a child sex abuse claim, does sovereign immunity continue to bar any such claim against the State that arose prior to July 1, 1982, the effective date of the Maryland Tort Claims Act’s limited sovereign immunity waiver?
No. 15 State of Maryland v. John William Smith, Jr.
Issues – Criminal Procedure – 1) Under New York v. Hill, 528 U.S. 110 (2000), does defense counsel’s active participation in selecting a trial date outside the Interstate Agreement on Detainers’ 180-day period constitute a waiver of the statutory time limits? 2) Does the IAD require an open-court good cause finding or verbatim contemporaneous recording of a scheduling discussion as a prerequisite to finding waiver, even when the State proffers and the defense concedes that the parties and court jointly selected a trial date beyond the 180-day period?
After November 9, 2026, the Court will recess until December 3, 2026.
On the day of argument, counsel must register in the Clerk’s Office no later than 8:30 a.m. unless otherwise notified.
GREGORY HILTON
CLERK