Third Amended Administrative Order Re-Imposing the Statewide Suspension of Jury Trials and Maintaining Grand Juries (Nov. 12, 2020)

The record

Jurisdiction

Maryland

Level

Court

Authority

Md. Const. art. IV, sec. 18

Issued

2020-11-12 Nov. 12, 2020

Effective

2020-11-16 through 2020-12-31 (later extended to Apr. 25, 2021) (read as 2020-11-16)

End

Superseded Nov. 24 and Dec. 22, 2020 and Feb. 2 and Feb. 16, 2021; jury trials resumed Apr. 26, 2021 (read as 2020-12-22)

In force

Nov. 16, 2020 to Dec. 22, 2020

Quarters

2020 Q42021 Q1

2020 Q22020 Q32020 Q42021 Q12021 Q22021 Q3

Limitation types

Courts and public offices

Addressees

• Circuit Courts
• litigants, jurors

Functions reached

• CT
• PJ
• SV collections and foreclosure litigation

Collection

Maryland MD

Operative words

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

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