Maryland’s High Court Just Left a D.C. Carrier Convicted

Cam Edwards at Bearing Arms dated the report September 29, 2026, 5:31 p.m. The lede is the fact: “A legal gun owner from Washington, D.C. who was arrested for carrying a firearm in the D.C. suburbs of Maryland has one more shot at reversing his conviction, and it’s going to take the U.S. Supreme Court to do it.” Next sentence: “On Tuesday, the Maryland Supreme Court denied Darius Duvall’s cert petition, allowing his conviction to stand and keeping the state’s draconian restrictions on non-resident carrying in place.” Tuesday was September 29. The court is the Supreme Court of Maryland, not the U.S. Supreme Court.

A cert denial at the state high court is not a written merits opinion. It is the court declining to hear the case. Duvall’s conviction for carrying as a non-resident remains the judgment below. Maryland’s rules on who may carry without a Maryland permit — including a D.C. resident in the inner suburbs — remain the rules. Edwards’s frame is that the traveler’s next forum is One First Street, not Annapolis.

This is a different Maryland fight from last week’s Glock-style PI denial in Bathras v. Moore. That case is still in the District of Maryland on the convertible-pistol statute. This one is a state criminal conviction and a state high-court cert denial. It is not a U.S. Supreme Court grant. It is not a merits holding on Bruen. It is Maryland’s highest court closing its own door.