Legal Opinion
Hignut v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 6, 1973No. 238, September Term, 1972PublishedCited by 50 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtMoylan, J.
Menchine, Gilbert and Davidson, JJ., dissent and Menchine, J., filed a dissenting opinion in which Gilbert and Davidson, JJ., concur at page 422 infra.
*403Commendably, there is a high resolve in many policemen to ferret out the last shred of probable cause; regrettably, there is a concomitant inertia in those policemen toward putting it down on paper. That gap between the latent and the kinetic (with its Fourth Amendment consequences) echoes T. S. Eliot in The Hollow Men, “Between the idea and the reality, between the motion and the act, falls the Shadow.” In the case at bar, the shadow fell…
2Cases cited31 opinions
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- United States v. VentrescaSupreme Court of the United States · 1965
- Whiteley v. Warden, Wyoming State PenitentiarySupreme Court of the United States · 1971
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3Cited by50 opinions
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