97 Md. App. 630 - Albrecht v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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2 district · 17 state decisions

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1. “Under almost all circumstances, the gratuitous pointing of a deadly weapon at one civilian by another civilian would almost certainly be negligence per se, if not gross negligence per se. A police officer, on the other hand, is authorized and, indeed, frequently obligated to threaten deadly force on a regular basis. The standard of conduct demanded of a police officer on duty, therefore, is the standard of a reasonable police officer similarly situated.”

   3 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. State v. Pagotto · Richardson v. McGriff

2. ““The trial judge can hardly have been suggesting that, after Darnell Budd was observed leaving the scene wherein he had stabbed Timothy Fair, it was inappropriate for Officer Albrecht and Officer Thomas to pursue the green Chevrolet and to arrest Budd. Budd had left in a car with several other individuals. The officers had been told, at the stabbing scene, that Budd and several of the males who had been with him were drug dealers. They had been told, moreover, that one or more of the fleeing group might have a gun. When the car was discovered shortly thereafter by Officer Albrecht and the suspects, who had just been in that car, were numbered at three, it cannot be suggested that this was not one of those ‘felony stops,’ involving either a vehicle or multiple suspects, described by the Montgomery County Police Department as one where officers should approach with guns drawn. “Although the trial judge demeaned the significance of the earlier stabbing as he used the phrase ‘given the relative lack of severity of the crime’ and demeaned the potential danger posed by Darnell Budd as ‘a felon, not the most fearsome type,’ a stabbing of a victim in the back with a glass bottle is no less serious than a stabbing with a knife. The pictures introduced at trial showed the gaping wound that had been inflicted on the back of Timothy Fair. The wound had been observed by Officer Albrecht and Officer Thomas. In the photograph, it is three to four inches in length and is gaping open to the w”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Albrecht v. State · State v. Albrecht

3. “Darnell Budd, Rebecca Garnett, and James Littlejohn were all suspects. It was Rebecca Garnett who had driven two or three males away from the stabbing scene. In view of the tight time sequence, there was every reason for an arresting officer to believe that both Darnell Budd and James Littlejohn were two of the males driven from the stabbing scene. As Officer Albrecht approached Larchmont Terrace, both Darnell Budd and Rebecca Garnett were observed by him to be returning rapidly to the green Chevrolet automobile as they observed his approach.”

   2 later decisions quote this exact passage
   e.g. Albrecht v. State · State v. Albrecht