ADAMS v. STATE

[No. 130, September Term, 1979.]

289 Md. 221 (1981)

424 A.2d 344

JAMES LESLIE ADAMS, JR. v. STATE OF MARYLAND

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Decided January 13, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Jr., Assistant Public Defender, with whom was Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief, for appellant.

Alexander L. Cummings, Assistant Attorney General, with whom was Stephen H. Sachs, Attorney General, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before SMITH, DIGGES, ELDRIDGE, COLE, DAVIDSON and RODOWSKY, JJ.


COLE, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

The issue we are asked to decide in this case is whether a telephone call initiated by the police from the police station to a suspect, which is listened to by the victim of a crime on an extension phone for purposes of voice identification, amounts to an interception made in violation of the Maryland Wiretapping and Electronic Surveillance Law.

The pertinent facts are brief. At a jury trial in the Circuit Court...

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