Trader v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

The applicant plead guilty to breaking and entering in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County and was sentenced to six years. Because he had come to believe that his constitutional rights to due process and equal protection had been violated, mainly, he says, because of “Two or three law books at the Penitentiary,” he filed a petition for post conviction relief in which he complained that he had been arrested without a warrant, had been the victim of an illegal search, had had no preliminary hearing, had been held incommunicado by the police, had confessed to the police only because of…