Creswell v. Director of Patuxent Institution

This is an application for leave to appeal from a redetermination of defective delinquency. At the first hearing, in 1961, the reports of Dr. Boslow, the Director of Patuxent, and Dr. Lerner, the applicant’s duly appointed private psychiatrist, were in evidence and were considered by the jury in its finding of delinquency. The conclusion of both reports was that the applicant was a defective delinquent as defined in Code (1957), Art. 31B, sec. 5. The applicant was represented by court-appointed counsel and no application for leave to appeal was filed from this finding. At the redetermination…