In re Jeffrey L.

If strict compliance with legislatively or judicially enacted procedural protections for defendants wastes the valuable time of overburdened courts (as most taxpayers and even trial judges protest), repetition is a far greater waste when requirements are ignored and, after an appeal, compliance is compelled nonetheless. Probably the most hackneyed phrase in Maryland appellate records is the admonition to both bench and bar that rules, by whomever enacted, are "not guides to the practice of law but precise rubrics 'established to promote the orderly and efficient administration of justice and…