McClung v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

In his petition for post conviction relief, the petitioner on his own behalf, and his court-appointed counsel for him, assigned twenty-four reasons for the relief sought, many of which were frivolous and repetitious. However, on this application for leave to appeal he abandoned all of his former contentions except the principal one raised in the lower court. In effect he now contends that because the State failed to afford him the means to move for a new trial and to file a “pauper’s” appeal, he was deprived of procedural due process and equal protection of the laws in that the neglect to…