Court of Appeals of Maryland· 11/16/2000

Snyder v. State

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762 A.2d 125
361 Md. 580
2000 Md. LEXIS 691

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recognizing that the consciousness of guilt inference contains four sub-inferences (much like those we later adopted in Thomas), all of which must have evidentiary support
holding that evidence that the defendant had not contacted the police who were investigating his wife’s murder was inadmissible because it was “too ambiguous and equivocal” as evidence of consciousness of guilt
holding that evidence that the defendant had not contacted the police to inquire about the progress of the police investigation into his wife’s murder was inadmissible because it was “too ambiguous and equivocal” as evidence of consciousness of guilt
noting that the inference of consciousness of guilt requires four sub-inferences, which must all have evidentiary support
noting that evidence is relevant when “in conjunction with all other relevant evidence, the evidence tends to make the proposition asserted more or less probable”
applying similar factors to evidence that the husband of the murdered wife failed to inquire about the progress of the investigation

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Judges: Bell, Eldridge, Rodowsky, Chasanow, Raker, Wilner, Cathell

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