Legal Opinion
Dobson v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided November 20, 1957No. [H.C. No. 37, September Term, 1957.]PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtPrescott, J.
Donald Dobson makes application for leave to appeal from a denial of a writ of habeas corpus by Judge Warnken of the Supreme Bench of Baltimore City.
The petitioner pleaded guilty to seven separate offenses of armed robbery before Judge Joseph Carter, and was sentenced to twenty years in each case, said sentences to run consecutively, or an aggregate of one hundred and forty years.
He contends (a) that this sentence is cruel and unusual and therefore in violation of the Maryland constitution; and (b) that his court-appointed attorney failed to represent him properly.(a)
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2Cases cited3 opinions
- Roberts v. Warden of Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1955
- Hicks v. Warden of Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1972
- Frazier v. Warden of Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001
3Cited by7 opinions
- Dobson v. WardenCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001
- Dobson v. WardenDistrict Court, D. Maryland · 1960
- Dobson v. Warden of Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1966
- Dodson v. WardenCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1970
- Beard v. Warden of Maryland PenitentiaryCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1960
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