In Re Ann M.

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• stating that “the contempt powers of Maryland courts generally exist independent of statute”
• reversing criminal contempt conviction of child who violated court order to attend school on the ground that it was an abuse of discretion to employ contempt power when court could have treated child as a CINS
• “Under the Juvenile Causes Act, no disposition of a juvenile petition, whether of a delinquent, CINA or a CINS, may result in a criminal conviction.”
• contempt power in child protection cases is beyond court’s discretion because it is inconsistent with statute and policy to decriminalize status offenses
• “The sanction imposed for civil contempt is coercive and must allow for purging”
• criminal contempt is a “common law offense” which “arises from a deliberate effort or a wilful act of commission or omission by the alleged contemnor committed with the knowledge that it would frustrate the order of the court”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).