Crews v. Director of Patuxent Institution

The applicant, Isaac Lee Crews, was convicted in 1963 of obtaining money by false pretenses and sentenced to serve six years in the House of Correction. (This sentence was later reduced to two years). Mr. Crews was transferred in October, 1963, to Patuxent Institution for diagnostic evaluation. The report of Patuxent, filed February 19, 1964, recommended Mr. Crews’ commitment as a defective delinquent. On January 6, 1965, a jury found Mr. Crews to be a defective delinquent. Mr. Crews filed an application for leave to appeal and a petition to proceed in forma pauperis on January 20, 1965. He…