PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor

Ch. 391

MARYLAND RULES TO DETERMINE A DEFENDANTS ELIGIBILITY FOR PRETRIAL
RELEASE, COUNSEL FOR THE DEFENDANT, OR THE STATE'S ATTORNEY IF:

1. THE INDIVIDUAL WHO IS THE SUBJECT OF THE COURT
RECORD IS CHARGED AS AN ADULT WITH AN OFFENSE;

2. THE INDIVIDUAL WAS PREVIOUSLY ADJUDICATED AS

DELINQUENT;

3. 2. THE ACCESS TO AND USE OF THE COURT RECORD IS
STRICTLY LIMITED FOR THE PURPOSE OF DETERMINING THE DEFENDANT'S
ELIGIBILITY FOR PRETRIAL RELEASE; AND

4. 3. THE COURT RECORD CONCERNS AN ADJUDICATION
OF DELINQUENCY THAT OCCURRED WITHIN 3 YEARS OF THE DATE THE
INDIVIDUAL IS CHARGED AS AN ADULT.

(II) THE COURT OF APPEALS MAY ADOPT RULES TO IMPLEMENT
THE PROVISIONS OF THIS PARAGRAPH.

SECTION 2. AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this Act shall take effect
October 1, 1997.

Approved May 8, 1997.

CHAPTER 391
(House Bill 65)

AN ACT concerning

Prescription Drugs - Evidence of Forgery

FOR the purpose of authorizing the introduction into as evidence as proof of a certain
forgery or alteration of a prescription for a prescription drug certain drugs under
certain circumstances a certain statement made by a practitioner licensed to
administer a prescription drug prescribe certain drugs; requiring the State to
provide written notice to the defendant within a certain period of time that the
State intends to rely on certain evidence and introduce certain evidence at a certain
proceeding; requiring the State to require the presence of a certain witness on
written demand of the defendant within a certain period of time: defining a certain
term; and generally relating to the introduction of evidence of forgeries of
prescriptions.

BYrepealing and reenacting, without amendments,
Article 27—Crimes and Punishments
Section 300(a), (g-1), and (h)
Annotated Code of Maryland
(1996 Replacement Volume)

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