KNIGHT v. STATE

Nos. 93, 94, Sept. Term, 2003.

850 A.2d 1179 (2004)

381 Md. 517

Ricky KNIGHT v. STATE of Maryland. Steven Daniel Sirbaugh v. State of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

June 7, 2004.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stacy W. McCormack, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), for petitioner.

Sarah Page Pritzlaff, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and JOHN C. ELDRIDGE, (retired, specially assigned), JJ.


HARRELL, J.

These two otherwise unconnected cases, Sirbaugh v. State, No. 94, September Term 2003, and Knight v. State, No. 93, September Term 2003, each present the question of whether an interrogating officer's assumedly truthful promise to a criminal suspect to report to the prosecuting authority that the suspect cooperated with an investigation is an improper inducement that renders a subsequent statement...

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