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Brown v. State

Citations

  • 835 A.2d 1208
  • 378 Md. 355
  • 2003 Md. LEXIS 758

How courts have described this case

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  • reaffirming Scott and upholding knock and talk when a police officer approached a door to a motel, responded “maintenance” when the occupant asked who was there, and identified himself as a police officer when occupant opened door
  • \The earlier deception that induced appellant to open the door had no erosive effect on the consent to enter or the consent to search.\
  • where officer represented himself as a maintenance person wanting to check the thermostat, which induced nothing more than the opening of the door, the ruse did not invalidate subsequent consent to enter

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Judges: Raker, Bell

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