TIPPETT v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Nos. 13415, 13421, 13426, 13433, 13434 and 13441.

436 F.2d 1153 (1971)

Charles Mason TIPPETT, Appellant, v. STATE OF MARYLAND, and Director of Patuxent Institution, Appellees. Albert Delanor MUREL, Appellant, v. BALTIMORE CITY CRIMINAL COURT, and Director of Patuxent Institution, State of Maryland, Appellees. Robert HAYES, Jr., Appellant, v. Harold M. BOSLOW, M.D., Director, Patuxent Institution, Appellee. William R. MONROE, Appellant, v. DIRECTOR OF the PATUXENT INSTITUTION, and State of Maryland, Appellees. Bradley Arlington AVEY, Appellant, v. STATE OF MARYLAND, Harold M. Boslow, as Director of Patuxent Institution, and Vernon L. Pepersack, as Commissioner, State Department of Corrections, Appellees. George L. CRESWELL, Appellant, v. DIRECTOR, PATUXENT INSTITUTION, Appellee.

United States Court of Appeals, Fourth Circuit.

Decided January 4, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Karl Feissner and Andrew E. Greenwald, Hyattsville, Md. (Court-assigned) [William L. Kaplan, Thomas P. Smith, Fred R. Joseph, and Feissner, Kaplan & Smith, Hyattsville, Md., on brief], for appellants.

Alfred J. O'Ferrall, III, Asst. Atty. Gen. of Md. (Francis B. Burch, Atty. Gen. of Md. and Edward F. Borgerding, Asst. Atty. Gen., on brief), for appellees.

Curtis R. Reitz, Philadelphia, Pa. (Richard L. Bazelon, Philadelphia, Pa., on brief), for amicus curiae.

Before HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge, and SOBELOFF, and BUTZNER, Circuit Judges.


HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge:

These consolidated appeals arise from a previous order of this Court1 in which we directed the District Court to determine, after a full hearing, numerous questions involving the application of the Maryland Defective Delinquents Act.2 Following an extensive series of hearings, and on consideration of the record of equally thorough proceedings in the state courts,3...

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