2 Md. App. 162 - State v. Hance’s Empirical Analysis

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6 federal appellate · 4 district · 39 state decisions

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1. ““We also conclude that the court below erred in its conclusion that Hance’s statement even though voluntary, was nevertheless inadmissible in evidence because he was only fifteen years of age when he made the statement, and his mother was not permitted to attend his police interrogation. It is well established that the single standard or test by which the court is to measure the admissibility of an extrajudicial statement (or confession) is whether the statement was made freely and voluntarily, and at a time when the person making the statement knew and understood what he was saying, [citations omitted] That Hance was only fifteen years of age when he made the statement does not of itself make the statement involuntary, [citations omitted] In other words, as succinctly stated in Green v. State, 236 Md. 334, 339 , ‘age alone will not render an otherwise voluntary statement involuntaryAnd, if a statement is found to be voluntary, the fact that the mother of the juvenile making the statement was not permitted to attend the interrogation would have no bearing on the admissibility of the voluntary statement.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. 36 Md. App. 124 - King v. State