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REPORTED IN THE COURT OF SPECIAL APPEALS OF MARYLAND Nos. 327, 328, 329 & 347 September Term, 1996 _______________________________

JOHN C. WIEGAND

v.

STATE OF MARYLAND

_______________________________ Moylan, Cathell Wilner, Alan M. (specially assigned), JJ. _______________________________ Opinion by Wilner, J. _______________________________ Filed: December 4, 1996

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Appellant is a bail bondsman who posted bonds in four separate cases pending in the Circuit Court for Cecil County. After the

respective defendants failed to appear for trial, the bonds were forfeited, appellant. and, eventually, judgments were entered against

Appellant paid the principal amounts of the bonds but The

has refused to pay the court costs included in the judgments.

only issue in this appeal is whether he is liable for those costs.

This case is before us because of a regrettable series of lapses and errors on the part of both the court and the clerk. question is the effect of those lapses and errors. The

To introduce

the issue, we need to consider Md. Rule 4-217(i), which sets forth the procedure to be followed in forfeiting bail bonds, and Md. Code art. 27,

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