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· 1/18/1989

McAvoy v. State

Citations

  • 551 A.2d 875
  • 314 Md. 509
  • 1989 Md. LEXIS 4

How courts have described this case

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

  • observing that, in Sites, we recognized “neither a right of counsel in the Fifth nor Sixth Amendment sense, but rather a deprivation of the right of due process by the unnecessary denial of a specific request for counsel”
  • recognizing the holdings of Schmerber and Neville
  • “Armed with the facts properly found by the trial judge, we must ... make an independent constitutional appraisal of the record to determine the correctness of the trial judge’s decision concerning custody.”
  • “Armed with the facts properly found by the trial judge, we must ... make an independent constitutional appraisal of the record to determine the correctness of the trial judge’s decision concerning custody.”
  • “Armed with the facts properly found by the trial judge, we must ... make an independent constitutional appraisal of the record to determine the correctness of the trial judge’s decision concerning custody.”
  • “Armed with the facts properly found by the trial judge, we must, however, make an independent constitutional appraisal of the record to determine the correctness of the trial judge’s decision concerning custody.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Judges: Adkins, Blackwell, Cole, Eldridge, McAULIFFE, Murphy, Rodowsky

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