66 Md. App. 1 - Parker v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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24 state decisions

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1. “In Parker , we recognized that Probable cause is not to be evaluated from a remote vantage point of a library, but rather from the viewpoint of a prudent and cautious police officer on the scene at the time of the arrest. The question to be answered is whether such an officer in the particular circumstances, conditioned by his observations and information, and guided by the whole of his police experience, reasonably could have believed that a crime had been committed by the person to be arrested____”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Md. App. 285 - Baziz v. State · 67 Md. App. 620 - Trusty v. State

2. “An appellate court can reject the testimony of a witness credited by the triers of fact only when the testimony is inherently improbable. There must exist a physical impossibility that the statements of the witness are true or their falsity must appear without resorting to inferences or deduction. The appellate court may not substitute its judgment with respect to the credibility of a witness for that of the jury and trial judge on the ground that the evidence is inherently improbable unless it is so clearly false and unbelievable that reasonable minds may not differ.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 93 Md. App. 285 - Baziz v. State

3. “we give great weight to the findings of the hearing judge as to specific, first-level facts ... we must make our own independent judgment as to what to make of those facts; we must, in making that independent judgment, resolve for ourselves the ultimate, second-level facts”

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