Eddie White, Sr. v. Vernon L. Pepersack, Warden, Maryland Penitentiary, the Hon. Thomas B. Finan, Attorney General of the State of Maryland

HAYNSWORTH, Chief Judge.

The question is whether the defendant, after having been convicted of murder, is foreclosed by his trial admission of the homicide from attacking collaterally the prosecutor’s use of (1) evidence seized in an unlawful search, (2) a confession claimed to have been involuntary, and (3) testimony claimed to have been perjured. 1 2We hold that he is not.

At about three o’clock one morning, after a long night of drinking, of real or imagined slights at the hands of his paramour and her mother and of bickering with a roomer, the defendant slew a comparative stranger and…