Legal Opinion
Ashburn v. Anne Arundel County
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided July 10, 1986No. 10, September Term, 1985PublishedCited by 168 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
COLE, Judge.
In this case, we must determine whether a police officer may be held liable to a person injured by a drunk driver where the officer detected the driver’s condition before the accident but failed to stop and detain him.
The parties have agreed to the following facts. On February 18, 1983, Officer Dennis Freeberger of the Anne Arundel County Police Department found John J. Millham in a pickup truck on the parking lot of a 7-11 store. Millham was intoxicated and sitting behind the wheel of the truck with its engine running and lights on. It is agreed that Millham was driving the…
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