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this confusion and to bring Maryland into line with

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virtually all the other 50 states and the federal courts. A;

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we point out in the memorandum in paragraph 1, every eminent

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authority that has reviewed this provision has recommended

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its deletion. It has been called - I keep having something

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placed in front of me here.

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DELEGATE JAMES: This must be a diversionary

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tactic.

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DELEGATE MOSER: Since all of you have copies, I

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won't read it. Delegate Rybczynski may want to.

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(Laughter.)

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DELEGATE MOSER: In any case, it has been called,

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as I mentioned before, anachronistic in one Court of Appeals

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case, an anomalous situation which should not be permitted

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to remain as a blight upon the administration of justice in

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the State of Maryland, archaic, outmoded, and atrocious, a

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thorn in the flesh of Maryland's body of criminal law by

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authorities such as Chief Judge Prescott of the Court of

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Appeals, Judge Henderson, Chief Judge Dennis of the supreme

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bench of Baltimore City.

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As Delegate Hargrove told you yesterday, I think