Keeling v. Director, Patuxent Institution

Leon Keeling, Jr. was convicted on June 20, 1962 by Judge Shirley B. Jones, sitting in the Criminal Court of Baltimore, of robbery and was sentenced to five years in the Maryland State Reformatory for Males. On September 17, 1963, Judge Jones, at the request of the Department of Correction, ordered Keeling to be transferred to Patuxent Institution to determine whether he was a defective delinquent pursuant to the provisions of Art. 31B, § 5, Md. Code (1967 Repl. Vol.). After a full evidentiary hearing before Judge Michael J. Manley, sitting with a jury, he was found to be a defective…