Thomas v. State

How courts have described this case

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

• holding that a confession does not per se render a suspect in custody, especially where the atmosphere of the room never changed
• holding that a confession does not per se render a suspect in custody, especially where the atmosphere of the room never changed
• holding that a confession does not per se render a suspect in custody, and once defendant confessed, the atmosphere of the room never changed; thus, admission did not render defendant in custody
• concluding that, “although the police 9 never uttered the talismanic words ‘you are free to go,’” Thomas was not in custody for Miranda purposes and the circuit court judge erred in granting the motion to suppress
• noting that when a suspect is arrested at the end of an interview that does not demonstrate that he was in custody prior to the arrest
• noting that when a suspect is arrested at the end of an interview that does not demonstrate that he was in custody prior to the arrest

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

15 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Green v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-10-20· cited 12×
• Madrid v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2021-07-09· cited 12×
• Moody v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2013-01-23· cited 9×
• Paige v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-11-30· cited 7×
• Brown v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-03-27· cited 7×
• Edwards v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2017-05-24· cited 7×
• Norwood v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2015-04-29· cited 6×
• Aguilera-Tovar v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2012-12-20· cited 4×
• Alford v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2018-03-02· cited 3×
• State v. Rogers
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2019-03-28· cited 1×
• Mario M. Mills v. The State of Wyoming
  Wyoming Supreme Court· 2022-12-13· cited 1×
• State v. Daniel J. H. Bartelt
  Wisconsin Supreme Court· 2018-02-20
• Rodriguez v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2023-06-01
• Riley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-08-27
• Campbell v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-10-02

Cites

50 cases in this archive are cited by this case; the 20 most cited are listed.

• Miranda v. Arizona
  Supreme Court· 1966-06-13· cited 58,288×
• Rhode Island v. Innis
  Supreme Court· 1980-05-12· cited 5,571×
• Berkemer v. McCarty
  Supreme Court· 1984-07-02· cited 4,856×
• Yarborough v. Alvarado
  Supreme Court· 2004-06-01· cited 3,494×
• Oregon v. Mathiason
  Supreme Court· 1977-01-25· cited 2,680×
• Stansbury v. California
  Supreme Court· 1994-04-26· cited 2,603×
• Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States
  Supreme Court· 1920-03-01· cited 2,373×
• California v. Beheler
  Supreme Court· 1983-07-06· cited 2,048×
• Dickerson v. United States
  Supreme Court· 2000-06-26· cited 1,932×
• Thompson v. Keohane
  Supreme Court· 1995-11-29· cited 1,729×
• New York v. Quarles
  Supreme Court· 1984-06-12· cited 1,468×
• Howes v. Fields
  Supreme Court· 2012-02-21· cited 785×
• Maryland v. Shatzer
  Supreme Court· 2010-02-24· cited 624×
• J. D. B. v. North Carolina
  Supreme Court· 2011-06-16· cited 563×
• United States v. Leonard David Griffin
  Eighth Circuit· 1990-12-28· cited 292×
• United States v. Craighead
  Ninth Circuit· 2008-08-21· cited 190×
• Riddick v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1990-04-11· cited 173×
• Cartnail v. State
  Court of Appeals of Maryland· 2000-06-14· cited 129×
• Hunter v. State
  Alaska Supreme Court· 1979-02-16· cited 112×
• State v. Pinder
  Supreme Court of Connecticut· 1999-08-24· cited 103×