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Crawford v. State

Citations

  • 404 A.2d 244
  • 285 Md. 431
  • 1979 Md. LEXIS 245

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

  • explaining that fundamental fairness principles guard against an unfair trial
  • explaining that fundamental fairness principles guard against an unfair trial
  • finding error where the jury heard a recorded interrogation in which police expressed disbelief of the defendant’s story
  • error in placing challenged portions of recordings of interrogations before jury
  • error in placing challenged portions of recordings of interrogations before jury
  • “The phrase ‘due process of law’ in the federal constitution has been equated with the phrase ‘Law of the land’ in the Maryland Constitutional declaration that ‘no man ought to be ... deprived of his life, liberty or property, but ... by the Law of the land.’ ”

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Judges: Murphy, Smith, Digges, Eldridge, Orth, Cole, Davidson

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