Simon v. Maryland

R. DORSEY WATKINS, District Judge.

Petitioner, presently committed to Pa-tuxent Institution, addressed to Chief Judge Simon E. Sobeloff of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit an original petition for a writ of habeas corpus attacking the constitutionality of Maryland’s Defective Delinquents Act. In the absence of Judge Sobeloff the petition was referred to Circuit Judge Clement L. Haynsworth, Jr., who, noting that the substantive question raised by the petitioner was before the United States Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in five other cases which had been argued…