30 Md. App. 599 - Venner v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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7 state decisions

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1. “In the familiar constitutional sense of the word “search” and the word “seizure,” it is neither a search nor seizure when the police come into possession of contraband, instrumentalities of crime, fruits of crime, or mere evidence, without violating the security of the defendant’s person or his house or other constitutionally protected area. . ■ Numerous cases have been concerned with the use of evidence once owned, possessed, or controlled by an accused, but which comes into the possession of the police after it has been abandoned or otherwise relinquished by him. An example is found in Abel v. U. S., 362 U.S. 217 , 80 S.Ct. 683 , 4 L.Ed.2d 668 (1960). We should not permit ourselves to fall into imprecise thinking because the evidence sought to be suppressed was in Venner’s body when the police first learned of its probable existence. The contraband was not taken from his body, by the police or by anyone acting for the police. There was no intrusion into the body. . . . [Venner v. State, supra ].”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. United States v. Woods

2. ““Whenever a person shall seek counselling, treatment or therapy for any form of drug abuse from a physician, psychologist, hospital, an educator pursuant to the provisions of § 85A of Article 77, or a person, program or facility authorized by the Authority to counsel or treat any form of drug abuse, no statement, whether oral or written, made by such person and no observation or conclusion derived from such counselling, treatment or therapy made by such physician, psychologist, hospital, person, program or facility shall be admissible against such person in any proceeding. The facts or results of any examination to determine the existence of illegal or prohibited drugs in a person’s body shall not be admissible in any proceeding against such person, provided that the facts or results of any such examination ordered pursuant to a civil commitment proceeding under this article or as a condition of parole or probation shall be admissible in the proceeding for which the examination was ordered.””

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the majority
   e.g. Venner v. State