OK. How's this for starters, a basic explanation of Maryland appellate procedure, from the Maryland court system itself:
The Court of Special Appeals is Maryland’s second highest court, the intermediate appellate court. The Court of Special Appeals considers any prior reviewable judgment, decree, order or other action. In other words, if a party is unhappy with a Circuit Court decision, they have the option to appeal their case for review by the Court of Special Appeals. Judges sitting on the Court of Special Appeals generally hear and decide cases in panels of three, but in some instances, all 15 judges can sit to hear the case.
See the bolded parts? Appellate courts (such as the Maryland Court of Special Appeals) review judgments, orders, decrees, and other actions taken by trial courts.
REALLY??? Ha, ha. There’s only one layer of appeal... right? And caselaw doesn’t matter... right? Even at the level of the SC, right? HA HA HA! Bravo Sierra.
I didn't say that caselaw doesn't matter. I said that there won't be any caselaw on this point, because no attorney would ever bring an appeal based on a prosecutor's charging decision, because a prosecutor's charging decision is not a judgment, decree, order, or other action of a trial court. But you knew that already, you obtuse little twit.
See the part in bold red? That's the part YOU made up and tacked on to the description, to change its meaning to suit your purposes.
It didn't say "other actions taken by trial courts". It said other actions, period.
A charging statement is one of those "other actions" that can be appealed.
And by the way, I found a nifty tutuorial white paper that covers (among other things) prosecutorial misconduct, one facet of which is laying charges. As well as several examples of appellate court case law that turns on the prosecutor's laying of charges. They are mostly federal appeals of state criminal court cases. I'm sure there are more, too, but I stopped looking when I found what I needed.
So I stand by my original claim: you lie.