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BROWN v. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS

No. 61, September Term, 1994.

338 Md. 286 (1995)

MELVIN BROWN, v. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS OF CARROLL COUNTY.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

May 17, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Franklin M. Johnson, Jr., Legal Aid Bureau, Inc., of Silver Spring (Susan Stauffer, Legal Aid Bureau, Inc. of Frederick), on brief, for appellant.

Charles W. Thompson, Jr., County Atty. for Carroll County (Mary J. Murphy, Asst. County Atty., both on brief), Westminster, for appellee.

Carmen M. Shepard, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Kathleen S. Hoke, Staff Atty., J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, amicus curiae.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL, and RAKER, JJ.

CHASANOW, Judge.

In the present case, we must determine whether an indigent pretrial detainee may be held personally liable for the costs of medical treatment received while incarcerated, despite the fact that he may have been covered under the Maryland Medical Assistance Program for most of the period of his detention.

I.

Melvin Brown was arrested on April 28, 1991 as a result of an altercation in which he was injured. Brown was unable to post bail...

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