An administrative case involving Tyler Mailloux, the Berlin man serving 18 months for a traffic offense in the hit-and-run accident that killed 14-year-old Gavin Knupp, will be appealed to Maryland’s higher court.
On Tuesday, County Attorney Roscoe Leslie filed a notice to appeal a judge’s motion in a case connected to Mailloux’s housing status at the Worcester County Jail.
The decision came three days after Worcester County Circuit Court Judge Brett Wilson granted a motion filed by Mailloux’s attorney, George Psoras, to permit discovery in his client’s case.
“Discovery orders in administrative appeal cases directed at senior government decision makers are appealable as final orders under the collateral order doctrine,” Leslie’s motion reads. “Accordingly, Respondents seek a stay of all discovery pending the outcome of the noted appeal.”
Mailloux seeks review of jail actions
Mailloux has been incarcerated in the Worcester County Jail since Feb. 25, when he entered a guilty plea to a felony count in Knupp’s death. Nine days later, he was moved to a more confined unit, known as a special management area, at his own request.
Since that time, however, Mailloux has sought the jail’s permission to be placed back into the general population, which his attorney argued will give him an opportunity to earn diminution credits for an earlier release.
With those requests denied, Mailloux’s attorney filed a petition in April seeking a judicial review of the jail’s actions. Psoras argued the jail’s actions were “an abuse of discretion” and had violated his client’s rights as an inmate.
He also alleged Worcester County State’s Attorney Kris Heiser had a private conversation with the warden regarding Mailloux’s housing status, and that he had been advised he could not share the conversations he had with jail staff with the state’s attorney.
It should be noted that Heiser has declined to comment on the Mailloux’s administrative case.
NO ONE, not even Mailloux is above the law!!!!!! I understand that when money talks, judges listen, but if this had been anyone else, that would have had the book thrown at them. Just not fair for Mailloux to be treated special.
Crooked judges are half of what is wrong with our country.