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

No. 137, September Term, 1985.

310 Md. 217 (1987)

528 A.2d 904

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

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 30, 1987.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Susan Sugar Nathan, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and C. Frederick Ryland, Sp. Atty., Clifton T. Perkins Hosp., Jessup, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and SMITH, ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, COUCH and McAULIFFE, JJ.


ELDRIDGE, Judge.

I.

Charles Anderson, at the conclusion of his first degree murder trial, was found "not guilty by reason of insanity"1 on April 8, 1981. The Criminal Court of Baltimore ordered him to the custody of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene for an examination and evaluation to determine whether he should be confined in a mental hospital. In accordance with the recommendation of the Department, the court committed...

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