Pollock v. Patuxent Institution Board of Review

ADKINS, Judge.

This appeal is the latest attempt to resolve a long-standing dispute regarding the parole revocation of Michael Pollock, appellant. We must decide whether test results indicating the presence of marijuana in a urine sample allegedly supplied by Pollock should have been excluded due to the failure of staff at Patuxent Institution (“Patuxent”) to strictly follow Patuxent’s procedures for collecting and documenting urine specimens. After the Court of Appeals remanded for a decision on this question, the Circuit Court for Howard County held that the test results were properly…