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HAWKINS v. STATE

No. 31, September Term, 1989.

318 Md. 148 (1989)

567 A.2d 109

ANTHONY TYRONE HAWKINS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 22, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sherrie B. Glasser, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Diane E. Keller, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.

RODOWSKY, Judge.

Historically, one of the sacred cows of Maryland practice is the trial de novo on an appeal from a court of limited jurisdiction to a circuit court. Currently appeals from the District Court of Maryland, other than by consent or in civil actions in which the amount in controversy exceeds $2,500, are tried de novo. Md.Code (1974, 1989 Repl.Vol.), § 12-401(d) of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article (CJ).1 This...

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