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McFARLIN v. STATE

No. 119, September Term, 2008.

975 A.2d 862 (2009)

409 Md. 391

Robert Lee McFARLIN v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 17, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradford C. Peabody, Asst. Public Defender (Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender, Baltimore), on brief, for petitioner.

Robert Taylor, Jr., Asst. Atty. Gen. (Douglas F. Gansler, Atty. Gen., Baltimore), on brief, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, MURPHY, BARBERA and ADKINS, JJ.

GREENE, Judge.

In this case we must determine whether a letter that Petitioner, Robert Lee McFarlin, wrote to his father from prison was wrongfully admitted into evidence at McFarlin's trial for murder. To reach this determination, we must address whether the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center ("MCAC") seized the letter in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. We shall hold that McFarlin's constitutional rights were not violated...

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