State v. Brookman State v. Carnes

Panel Barbera, C.J., Greene, Adkins, McDonald, Watts, Hotten, Getty, JJ.

McDonald, J.

**294 The past three decades have seen the growth, in Maryland and elsewhere, of treatment programs operated under the auspices of the judiciary. In those programs, sometimes identified by the generic phrase "problem-solving courts," judges, counsel, probation officers, and treatment professionals work together to address an underlying issue that brings an individual into the criminal justice system. Problem-solving courts **295 focus on therapy for the individual defendant, in the hope that both the…