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201 Md. 655

92 A.2d 754

Docket [H.C. No. 20, October Term, 1952.]

Dodson v. Warden

DODSON v. WARDEN OF MARYLAND HOUSE OF CORRECTION

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided December 5, 1952.

Court of Appeals of Maryland · decided 2001-10-20

Cited by 14 later decisions — most recently October 2001

3 federal appellate · 11 state decisions

Relies on Bowen v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction · Barr v. Warden · Cullings v. Warden of Baltimore City Jail

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Decided 2001-10-20

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¶1Before MARKELL, C.J., and DELAPLAINE, COLLINS and HENDERSON, JJ.

¶2DELAPLAINE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

¶3Earl Dodson, who was convicted in the Criminal Court of Baltimore on the charge of robbery with a deadly weapon and was sentenced to the Maryland House of Correction for four years, is applying here for leave to appeal from refusal of a writ of habeas corpus.

¶4He alleges that the police searched his home without a warrant and also searched him and took his watch and money from him and used them as evidence against him. He contends that he was convicted on evidence obtained by unlawful search and seizure.

¶5*656 The alleged unlawful search and seizure without a warrant would not entitle petitioner to be released on habeas corpus. State ex rel. Cullings v. Warden of Baltimore City Jail,198 Md. 670, 81 A.2d 645; Bowen v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction,200 Md. 661, 90 A.2d 174; Barr v. Warden of Maryland House of Correction,200 Md. 657, 90 A.2d 216.

¶6Application denied, with costs.

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