Johnson v. Mayor & Council of Baltimore

This appeal stems from the aftermath of this Court’s reported opinion in Francis v. Johnson, 219 Md.App. 531, 101 A.3d 494 (2014), in which Michael Brian Johnson, Jr,, appellant, filed an action in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City against three detectives of the Baltimore City Police Department (“BPD”), Tyrone S. Francis, Milton G. Smith, III, and Gregory Hellen (collectively, the “officers”), A jury awarded compensatory and punitive damages to Mr. Johnson for intention al torts and constitutional violations “based on the officers’ actions in taking him from Baltimore in a police van,…