{"id":"MD-086","kind":"order","level":"court","jurisdiction":"Maryland","state":"MD","metro":"","industry":"","agency":"","eco":"","issuer":"Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera, Court of Appeals of Maryland","authority":"Md. Const. art. IV, sec. 18","instrument":"Third Amended Administrative Order Re-Imposing the Statewide Suspension of Jury Trials and Maintaining Grand Juries (Nov. 12, 2020)","title":"Third Amended Administrative Order Re-Imposing the Statewide Suspension of Jury Trials and Maintaining Grand Juries","dateIssued":"2020-11-12","effective":"2020-11-16 through 2020-12-31 (later extended to Apr. 25, 2021)","end":"Superseded Nov. 24 and Dec. 22, 2020 and Feb. 2 and Feb. 16, 2021; jury trials resumed Apr. 26, 2021","startDate":"2020-11-16","endDate":"2020-12-22","quarters":["2020Q4","2021Q1"],"types":["CRT"],"addressees":["Circuit Courts","litigants, jurors"],"clause":"WHEREAS, The Fifth Administrative Order Restricting Statewide Judiciary Operations Due to the COVID-19 Emergency, having been filed on November 12, 2020, requiring the courts to return to Phase III operations in light of the surge in COVID-19 infections throughout Maryland,... (d) All criminal jury trials in the Circuit Courts throughout the State of Maryland scheduled to begin on or after March 16, 2020, having been suspended on an emergency basis, and having been authorized to resume, with trial dates scheduled beginning on October 5, 2020, and such trial dates pending on November 16, 2020, through December 31, 2020, unless a jury has been empaneled, shall be suspended and rescheduled as promptly as feasible beginning January 4, 2021, pending further order of the Chief Judge of the Court of Appeals...; (e) All civil jury trials in the Circuit Courts throughout the State of Maryland scheduled to begin on or after March 16, 2020, shall be suspended on an [emergency basis...]","enforcement":"Administrative order","functions":["CT","PJ","SV collections and foreclosure litigation"],"notes":"The winter 2020-21 re-tightening in the Judiciary","sourceUrl":"https://mdcourts.gov/sites/default/files/admin-orders-archive/archivedin2022/20201112thirdamendedadministrativeorderreimposingthestatewidesuspensionofjurytrialsandmaintaininggrandjuries.pdf","snapshot":"","fileExists":true,"fileBytes":1441297,"grade":"primary","character":"","description":"","collection":"MD","url":"/library/MD-086","exhibitUrl":"/exhibit/MD-086","citation":"Chief Judge Mary Ellen Barbera, Court of Appeals of Maryland, Third Amended Administrative Order Re-Imposing the Statewide Suspension of Jury Trials and Maintaining Grand Juries (Nov. 12, 2020) (Ex. MD-086)","stateName":"Maryland","related":["MD-080","MD-085","MD-087"]}