Brewster v. Warden of Maryland Penitentiary

Application denied for the reasons stated by Judge Harold E. Naughton in his opinion in the lower court.

The applicant, Randolph Brewster, claimed in one of his contentions that his confession was illegally elicited and could not be used against him at his trial, because he was “denied the assistance of counsel in violation of the Sixth Amendment to the Constitution.” The applicant was convicted on October 17, 1949, fourteen years before the decision in Escobedo v. Illinois, 378 U. S. 478, 84 S. Ct. 1758, 12 L. Ed. 2d 977 (1963). We have held that the exclusionary rule in Escobedo should not…