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State v. Wilson

Citations

  • 367 A.2d 1223
  • 279 Md. 189
  • 1977 Md. LEXIS 892

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

  • holding a search illegal when police observations were insuffi cient to support a probable cause determination that goods were stolen
  • explaining that the “immediately apparent” element, “in essence, amounts to a requirement that police have probable cause to believe the evidence is incriminating before they seize it”
  • prohibiting use of any evidence seized outside the warrant unless it is “immediately apparent to the police that they have evidence of crime before them”
  • prohibiting use of any evidence seized outside the warrant unless it is “immediately apparent to the police that they have evidence of crime before them”
  • prohibiting use of any evidence seized outside the warrant unless it is \immediately apparent to the police that they have evidence of crime before them\
  • considering whether officer obtained defendant’s express consent to search through coercion

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Judges: Murphy, Singley, Smith, Digges, Levine, Eldridge

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