Mullen v. Director, Patuxent Institution

The applicant had pleaded guilty to murder in the second degree in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County on 7 August 1963 and was sentenced to imprisonment for a term of 12 years, sentence to begin 11 October 1962. He did not appeal. On 8 August he was committed to the Patuxent Institution on an order for examination as a possible defective delinquent. Relief under post conviction procedures was sought and denied and application for leave to appeal therefrom was denied. Mullen v. Director, 234 Md. 655. The evaluation report and recommendation that the staff members at Patuxent felt he…