Legal Opinion
McCloskey v. Director, Patuxent Institution
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided February 15, 1967No. [App. No. 33, September Term, 1965.]PublishedCited by 23 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtBarnes, J.
James G. McCloskey appeals from an order of the Circuit Court for Cecil County (George B. Rasin, Jr., J.) committing him to Patuxent Institution. A jury had redetermined that the applicant was a defective delinquent, pursuant to Maryland Code, Article 31B, section 10.
The court below was faced in this case with a number of difficult procedural questions, not expressly answered by Article 3IB or by our decisions interpreting it. We believe some of these questions were incorrectly determined, and therefore, must remand this matter for a new trial. The errors below all stem from the fact that the…
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3Cited by23 opinions
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