LAWLESS v. DIRECTOR

No. 1037, September Term, 1974.

27 Md. App. 453 (1975)

340 A.2d 756

RICHARD WILLIAM LAWLESS v. DIRECTOR, PATUXENT INSTITUTION.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided July 7, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David E. Manoogian, Assigned Public Defender, with whom were MacDonald & Manoogian on the brief, for appellant.

Alexander L. Cummings, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Donald R. Stutman, Assistant Attorney General, Andrew L. Sonner, State's Attorney for Montgomery County, and Jerome C. Schaefer, Assistant State's Attorney for Montgomery County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before ORTH, C.J., and DAVIDSON and LOWE, JJ.


LOWE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The issues are too clear and the law too well settled to require extended factual synopses or lengthy legal analyses to arrive at our result. Richard William Lawless, a young man whose name is not new to appellate reports, was received in Patuxent Institution for examination December, 1969, by order of the Circuit Court for Montgomery County. There followed a series of legal attempts by appellant to overcome that referral...

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