United States Fourth Circuit

A jail's policy of charging pretrial detainees one dollar per day, to help defray the cost of housing, does not violate the detainees' due process liberty right to be free from punishment before conviction.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/09/2005
• Published 05/09/2005

Judges

• Before WILKINSON and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges, and Henry F. FLOYD, United States District Judge for the District of South Carolina, sitting by designation.

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• ARGUED:Joshua Neal Auerbach, Public Justice Center, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant.  Samuel Lawrence Dumville, Norris & St. Clair, P.C., Virginia Beach, Virginia, for Appellee.  Joel Christopher Hoppe, Assistant Attorney General, Office of the Attorney General of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia, for Intervenor.   ON BRIEF:Wendy N. Hess, Public Justice Center, Baltimore, Maryland, for Appellant.  Kent K. Stanley, Norris & St. Clair, P.C., Virginia Beach, Virginia, for Appellee.  Jerry W. Kilgore, Attorney General of Virginia, William E. Thro, State Solicitor General, Maureen Riley Matsen, Deputy State Solicitor General, Richmond, Virginia, for Intervenor.