Scott v. Warden, Maryland Penitentiary

The applicant attacked by his first petition under the Uniform Post Conviction Procedure Act his convictions of daytime housebreaking and grand larceny at a court trial in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, receiving on each a 10 year sentence, the sentences to run concurrently. Upon hearing in the Criminal Court of Baltimore the relief sought was denied. He seeks leave to appeal requesting review on only two questions:

1) whether his trial was “fundamentally fairand

2) whether due process was violated when the State’s witnesses were not sequestered at the time evidence was received on the issue…