Maryland State Police v. Zeigler

ALPERT, Judge.

Who would have believed that an impermissible classroom romance would give rise to this appeal in which we are called upon to decide, for the first time in the annals of Maryland administrative law, whether a fact-finding tribunal may adjourn for the purpose of receiving additional evidence once deliberations have commenced?

In other jurisdictions,

there is substantial support for the view that within the discretion of the trial court, the reopening of a civil case for the reception of additional evidence after it has been submitted and the jury have retired to deliberate on their…