Galloway

A 57-year-old Carroll County man known to the criminal justice system for decades received time served for his conviction on a sodomy charge involving a mentally disabled 18-year-old woman whom he kept at his home near Mount Airy for three days in November 2000. Carroll County Circuit Judge Michael M. Galloway found Guy Gordon Marsh Jr. guilty in October on the single count of sodomy as part of a plea agreement. The agreement also called for Marsh to register as a sex offender. Yesterday, at the conclusion of a two-day sentencing hearing that began in March, the judge credited Marsh with the 212 days he spent in jail until June 2001, suspending the balance of an eight-year prison term.

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On Tuesday, June 29, 2004, MR. ARCHIBALD GALLOWAY, SR., 82 of Ellicott City, MD. Former Westinghouse Engineer and member of Patmos Lodge #70, A.F. & A. Masons and the Elks; beloved husband of 60 years Winifred J. Galloway; loving father of Archie Galloway, II and wife Carol of Olney, MD, Robert D. Galloway and wife Vickie of Boise, ID; loving grandfather of Ryan and Travis of Boise, ID. Friends may call at the LOUDON PARK FUNERAL HOME, 3620 Wilkens Ave.,...

After serving on the Carroll County Circuit Court for 4 1/2 years, Judge Michael M. Galloway is about to become the senior jurist among the court's three judges. With the retirement in January of Luke K. Burns Jr. and the imminent departure of Raymond E. Beck Sr., Galloway gives up his position as the junior member of the bench. The move makes him a little apprehensive, he said. But he looks forward to working with the new judges and soliciting ideas on how to improve the court system.

Three more developers have gained temporary relief from Carroll County's freeze on residential development, one month before the moratorium is set to expire. Carroll County Circuit Judge Michael M. Galloway ordered the county yesterday to resume processing five residential projects, totaling 38 lots, that have not been allowed to move forward since the county commissioners implemented the freeze in June. The latest blow to the county's growth-control measure brings to seven the number of developers who have been granted injunctions blocking the county from enforcing the freeze.

Three more developers have gained temporary relief from Carroll County's freeze on residential development, one month before the moratorium is set to expire. Carroll County Circuit Judge Michael M. Galloway ordered the county yesterday to resume processing five residential projects, totaling 38 lots, that have not been allowed to move forward since the county commissioners implemented the freeze in June. The latest blow to the county's growth-control measure brings to seven the number of developers who have been granted injunctions blocking the county from enforcing the freeze.

A Carroll County Circuit Court judge has ordered the county to schedule the review of a subdivision plan, halted by the county's growth freeze, at next month's Planning and Zoning Commission meeting. This is the first time Judge Michael M. Galloway has specified the time and place for the county to resume processing subdivision plans that were subject to the county's one-year freeze on residential development. The county Planning and Zoning Commission determines final approval of subdivision plans.

A Carroll County Circuit Court judge has ruled in favor of two more developers in legal challenges to the county's growth freeze, adding to a growing list of subdivision plans the county would be forced to process pending appeals. In one case, Judge Michael M. Galloway granted last week a stay, or a delay of a decision by the county Board of Zoning Appeals. The board had upheld the county's action to halt an 11-lot subdivision plan from moving forward. The stay forces the county to resume processing development plans for Marabrooke Farm in Sykesville, said attorney Clark Shaffer, who represents the developer, Neuman Homes Development.

In another legal blow against Carroll County's growth freeze, a Circuit Court judge granted a preliminary injunction yesterday that would force the county to process a developer's subdivision plan just outside of Westminster. It is the third time Judge Michael M. Galloway ruled against the county's one-year freeze on residential development, which expires in June. In November, Galloway ordered the county to resume processing two subdivision plans after he granted similar injunctions. Appeals in those cases are pending in the state's second-highest court.