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243 Md. 688

221 A.2d 83

Docket [App. No. 139, September Term, 1965.]

Brewster v. Warden

BREWSTER v. WARDEN OF THE MARYLAND PENITENTIARY

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided July 5, 1966.

Court of Appeals of Maryland · decided 1966-07-05

Cited by 5 later decisions — most recently October 1983

5 state decisions

Relies on Escobedo v. Illinois · Hyde v. State

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Decided 1966-07-05

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¶1Before HAMMOND, HORNEY, MARBURY, OPPENHEIMER and BARNES, JJ.

¶2PER CURIAM:

¶3Application denied for the reasons stated by Judge Harold E. Naughton in his opinion in the lower court.

¶4The 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 be applied retroactively. Hyde v. State,240 Md. 661, 215 A.2d 145 (1965). We are happy to note that very recently the Supreme Court reached the same conclusion as we did in Hyde and denied Escobedo retroactive effect. Johnson v. State, 34 U.S.L. Week 4592 (U.S. June 20, 1966).

¶5Application denied.

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