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PRIOLEAU v. STATE

No. 2669, Sept. Term, 2005.

943 A.2d 696 (2008)

179 Md. App. 19

Maurice Darryl PRIOLEAU v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

March 6, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Kennedy (Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellant.

Diane E. Keller (Douglas F. Gansler, Atty. General on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellee.

Panel: KRAUSER, C.J., HOLLANDER, BARBERA, JJ.

BARBERA, Judge.

We consider in this appeal whether the phrase "What's up, Maurice?," when uttered by a police officer to an arrestee, is interrogation or its functional equivalent as those terms are understood in the parlance of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 436, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966), and its progeny. For the reasons that follow, we hold that words "What's up, Maurice?" were merely a greeting, given the circumstances...

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