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· 12/8/1983

Finke v. State

Citations

  • 468 A.2d 353
  • 56 Md. App. 450
  • 1983 Md. App. LEXIS 396

How courts have described this case

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

  • finding that police lies to defendant, including that his fingerprints were recovered at crime scene, did not render defendant’s statements involuntary
  • “[I]f [the witness] was shown not to accurately remember the facts to which he testified, then, in effect, he was ‘making it up’ or ‘fabricating it.’”
  • testimony that was inadmissible in the first trial because of procedural failure rather than substantively inadmissible was admissible in retrial when the trial court corrected procedural error
  • defendant and the third party were first cousins

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Judges: Wilner, Bloom, Morton, James

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