Stewart v. State

CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr., Judge,

Specially Assigned.

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We have cautioned bench and bar on numerous occasions that the Maryland Rules of Procedure

are not guides to the practice of law but precise rubrics “established to promote the orderly and efficient adminis tration of justice and [that they] are to be read and followed.”

Isen v. Phoenix Assurance Co., 259 Md. 564, 570, 270 A.2d 476 (1970), quoting Brown v. Fraley, 222 Md. 480, 483, 161 A.2d 128 (1960). We reminded in Noble v. State, 293 Md. 549, 557, 446 A.2d 844 (1982) that

[t]his Court has firmly adhered to the principle that the rules of…