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DAVIS v. DIRECTOR

Nos. 478, 597, 612, 862, September Term, 1975.

29 Md. App. 705 (1976)

351 A.2d 905

RONALD DAVIS v. DIRECTOR, PATUXENT INSTITUTION. RUPERT LEROY POWELL v. DIRECTOR, PATUXENT INSTITUTION. ROBERT N. SHORTER v. DIRECTOR, PATUXENT INSTITUTION. LOUIS CANE v. DIRECTOR, PATUXENT INSTITUTION.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 27, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald B.W. Messenger, Assigned Public Defender, with whom was G. Dent Lynch, Jr., Assigned Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant Ronald Davis.

Leonard C. Redmond, III, Assistant Public Defender, with whom were Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, and Victoria A. Salner, Assistant Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant Rupert Leroy Powell.

Philip L. Marcus, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant Robert N. Shorter.

Joseph F. McBride, Assigned Public Defender, for appellant Louis Cane.

Donald R. Stutman, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Arthur A. Marshall, Jr., State's Attorney for Prince George's County, James S. Nickelsporn and Anthony McCarthy, Assistant State's Attorneys for Prince George's County and William A. Swisher, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, and Stephen A. Wilder, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the briefs, for appellee.

ORTH, C.J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The primary issue in these appeals is whether the application of the preponderance of the evidence standard in defective delinquency proceedings offends the constitutional guarantee of equal protection of the laws.1 We hold that it does not.

THE LAW OF MARYLAND

It is the firmly established law of Maryland that the...

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