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ANDERSON v. DEP'T OF HEALTH & MENTAL HYG.

No. 544, September Term, 1985.

64 Md. App. 674 (1985)

498 A.2d 679

CHARLES ANDERSON v. DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE, ET AL.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

October 9, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Jr., Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender and George Lipman, Asst. Public Defender, Baltimore, on brief), for appellant.

Susan Sugar Nathan, Asst. Atty. Gen., Baltimore (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and C. Frederick Ryland, Special Counsel, Jessup, on brief), for appellees.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., and WILNER, and ALPERT, JJ.

WILNER, Judge.

In 1984, the General Assembly rewrote the State insanity law. In doing so, it changed some of the procedures by which "insanity acquittees" (persons charged with crime but excused from criminal responsibility by reason of insanity) could seek and obtain release from judicially-ordered commitment to the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DHMH). The questions before us in this appeal are whether the Legislature intended those changes to apply to...

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