State v. Diggs

Both the Court of Appeals and this Court have taken pains to persuade, expostulate, and warn bench and bar that the Maryland Rules of Practice and Procedure “are not guides to the practice of law but precise rubrics ‘established to promote the orderly and efficient administration of justice and [that they] are to be read and followed.’ ” Isen v. Phoenix Assurance Co., 259 Md. 564, 570, quoting Brown v. Fraley, 222 Md. 480, 483; Green v. State, 19 Md. App. 683, 687. It has been made abundantly clear that they are not apocrypha but “shall, when made, have the force of Law, until rescinded,…