156 Md. App. 597 - Wong Wing v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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4 state decisions

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1. “[e]ven if there were any ambiguity, 'the disfavor with which the law looks on testimonial privileges dictates that we resolve an ambiguity against the privilege, rather than in its favor.' " Praising the Wong-Wing rationale, the State asserts: "The merit of the approach taken in Wong-Wing is that it imposes a reasonable and pragmatic limitation on an otherwise boundless presumption of entitlement to a policy-based privilege that itself was never intended to be boundless.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sewell

2. “on an answering machine in a home that he knew [Sherry] shared with her adolescent daughter and her mother”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sewell

3. “); Matthews v. State , 89 Md. App. 488 , 502, 598 A.2d 813 (1991) (”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Sewell