IN RE COMMITMENT OF CUNNINGHAM


27 Pa. D. & C. 3d 605 (1983)

In Re: Commitment of Cunningham

Common Pleas Court of Lehigh County, Pennsylvania.

July 19, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis G. Charles, for The County of Lehigh.

Prince Altee Thomas, for The Commonwealth.


DAVISON, J., July 19, 1983.

This proceeding raises the novel question of the proper allocation of liability for the costs incurred by reason of a mental health commitment of a nonresident charged but not yet tried for criminal acts.

On August 6, 1980, John Cunningham, a nonresident of Lehigh County, was arrested and charged in Lehigh County with the crime of open lewdness and committed to the Lehigh...

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