194 Md. App. 327 - Moore v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “[Petitioner] was arrested pursuant to an outstanding warrant shortly after 1:00 a.m. on March 21, 2007, having already been charged with first-degree murder and related charges arising out of the shooting on Daimler Drive. [Petitioner] was placed in the interview room at approximately 2:00 a.m. Although he was not taken before a Commissioner until approximately twelve and one-half hours following his arrest, he provided the inculpatory statements at 8:05 a.m., according to Detective Turner’s testimony. Any subsequent delay is not relevant to our voluntariness analysis. We reject the State’s contention that the seven and one-half hour delay from 2:00 a.m. until the time that the search warrant was signed at approximately 8:30 a.m. was necessary to acquire a search warrant for [Petitioner’s home. The trial court correctly observed that the police had sufficient information for the search warrant prior to [Petitioner’s interview and, in fact, gained no additional substantive information during their interviews with [Petitioner] to assist in their efforts to acquire the search warrant.”

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

2. “In the final analysis, Maryland law currently recognizes that lack of parental involvement is but one factor to be considered in a totality of the circumstances analysis---- In sum, we agree with the trial court that the delay in permitting [Petitioner] to call his mother was permissible under the circumstances, as the efforts to obtain and execute a search warrant for her home were ongoing. Despite the unnecessary and deliberate delay in this case, we are persuaded that the delay did not render the confession involuntary. Under the totality of the circumstances, [Petitioner] knowingly and voluntarily confessed.”

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

3. “INVOLUNTARY MANSLAUGHTER — UNLAWFUL ACT The defendant is charged with the crime of involuntary manslaughter. In order to convict the defendant of involuntary manslaughter, the State must prove: (1) that [[the defendant] [another participating in the crime with the defendant]] [[committed] [attempted to commit]] a (unlawful act(s)); (2) that [the defendant] [another participating in the crime] killed (name); and (3) that the act resulting in the death of (name) occurred during the [commission] [attempted commission] [escape from the immediate scene] of the (unlawful act(s)).”

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