13 Md. App. 557 - Graybeal v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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18 state decisions

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1. ““We think it is clear in the case at bar that the lower court was of the opinion, and we cannot disagree, that the statement given by the appellant to Sergeant Zombro was not elicited or induced as a result of interrogation by the Sergeant but was freely and voluntarily given by the appellant without any of the coercive factors which may normally be involved in a custodial interrogation. Here the appellant on two separate occasions declined to give a statement and no interrogation ensued. The trial judge, obviously, gave credence to Sergeant Zombro’s version that the statement was given in the course of a ‘general conversation’ and that ‘it was nothing along the lines of interrogation.’ ””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 27 Md. App. 361 - Cummings v. State