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STATE v. CARD

No. 1285, September Term, 1994.

104 Md. App. 439 (1995)

STATE OF MARYLAND, ET AL. v. DALE S. CARD.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

April 5, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew H. Baida, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. and Steven G. Hildenbrand, Asst. Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant, State of Maryland.

Roger Lee Fink, County Atty. of La Plata, for appellant, Charles County.

Michael J. Schreyer (Andrews, Schick, Bongar and Starkey, P.A., on the brief), Waldorf, for appellee.

Argued before WILNER, C.J., and ALPERT and FRIEDMAN and KATHLEEN O'FERRALL (specially assigned), JJ.

WILNER, Chief Judge.

The State of Maryland, joined by Charles County, appeals from a $50,000 judgment entered by the Circuit Court for Charles County in favor of appellee, Dale S. Card. The principal issue before us is whether a statute enacted in 1990, amending the State Tort Claims Act, is applicable to appellee's claim. We shall hold that it is.

I. FACTUAL AND PROCEDURAL BACKGROUND

On August 16, 1989, while a pre-trial detainee in the Charles...

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