Powell v. Maryland Department of Health

*556Dissenting Opinion by

Getty, J.

Respectfully, I dissent.

To briefly summarize the central facts of this case, the Circuit Court for Baltimore City issued a series of separate commitment orders mandating that Appellants, criminal defendants who had been found incompetent to stand trial and dangerous, be committed to the care of Appellee, Maryland Department of Health (“MDH”) at the Clifton T. Perkins Hospital (“Perkins”)1 within one day after the date of each respective commitment order. Majority Op. at 527, 581-34, 168 A.8d at 862, 864-65. Appellants subsequently brought suit challenging an MDH…