In Re Smith

ORDER OVERRULING TRUSTEE’S OBJECTION TO DEBTOR’S CLAIM OF EXEMPT PROPERTY

JAMES F. SCHNEIDER, Bankruptcy Judge.

The instant controversy arises from the Trustee’s Objection to the Debtors’ Claims of Exempt Property [papers 5 and 9]. This case was held sub curia pending resolution of the constitutionality of the Maryland Exemption Statute, Courts and Judicial Proceedings, § 11-504, Annotated Code of Maryland (Supp.1982), in the test case of In re Locarno, 23 B.R. 622 (Bank.D.Md.1982). This Court held in Locarnothatthe Maryland exemptions are constitutional but that the State’s manner of opting…