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HOF v. STATE

No. 952, September Term, 1992.

97 Md. App. 242 (1993)

629 A.2d 1251

ROBERT ALAN HOF v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Granted December 10, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Wyda, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

David P. Kennedy, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Sandra A. O'Connor, State's Atty. for Baltimore County, Towson, on the brief), for appellee.

Submitted before MOYLAN, CATHELL and MOTZ, JJ.

MOYLAN, Judge.

This appeal poses a most basic question: Does there even exist such a thing as a law of confessions? Or is it the case that there are, rather, many laws of confessions? Be the law of confessions single or multiple, the burden is, in any event, indisputably on the State to satisfy the trial judge in the first instance that a challenged confession is admissible. It is a legitimate and increasingly popular defense strategy to exploit that...

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