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THE CHAIRMAN: Does any other delegate desire
to speak in favor?
Delegate Carson.
DELEGATE CARSON: It was not the intention
of the mvoers of this amendment to fog up the Constitution.
We were perfectly happy with the statement made by the
Chairman, but that statement, in turn, was fogged up by
others; and therefore we had to reintroduce it. I am
certainly agreeable to the Committee on Style in any way
changing the words that we have used, as long as they don't
change the substance.
It is our intent -- and I want to make this clear -
that this area shall include only the area of petty offenses
as defined in the cases decided by the Maryland Court of
Appeals, and defined by the Supreme Court. It is a most
limited area. It is the area in which the General
Assembly may grant the right of jury trial.
We are not taking away that right from the General
Assembly. It is only in the minor situation that we say that
the Court msy not have a jury trial. There were a
number of parking cases that arose in Woodlawn.