IN RE MAURICE M.

No. 50, September Term, 1988.

314 Md. 391 (1988)

550 A.2d 1135

IN RE MAURICE M.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 19, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George M. Lipman, Asst. Public Defender and George E. Burns, Jr., Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, Jose Felipe Anderson, Asst. Public Defender, Robin Parsons, Asst. Public Defender, all on brief) Baltimore, for appellant.

Ralph S. Tyler, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Andrew H. Baida, Asst. Atty. Gen., and Marilyn Blimline, all on brief), Mitchell Mirviss of Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves a challenge on Fifth Amendment self-incrimination grounds to the constitutionality of a civil contempt order entered by a Juvenile Court directing the mother of a juvenile "to produce him before the court or to reveal his exact whereabouts."1

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Maurice M., the infant son of Jacqueline Bouknight, was admitted to the hospital on January 23, 1987, with a broken leg; he was then three...

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