McFarlin v. State

GREENE, Judge.

In this case we must determine whether a letter that Petitioner, Robert Lee McFarlin, wrote to his father from prison was wrongfully admitted into evidence at McFarlin’s trial for murder. To reach this determination, we must address whether the Maryland Correctional Adjustment Center (“MCAC”) seized the letter in violation of the Fourth Amendment of the United States Constitution. We shall hold that McFarlin’s constitutional rights were not violated and that his letter was properly admitted into evidence.

I

On February 3, 2004, McFarlin was serving a prison sentence at the…