State v. Johnson

It is exceedingly difficult for a reviewing judge to be less than demanding. It somehow cuts against the judicial grain to accept that a conclusion one can prove ineluctably to be imperfect may nonetheless be adequate. Possessing such a talent, however, is a core value of the reviewing process.

We described in State v. Amerman, 84 Md.App. 461, 463, 581 A.2d 19 (1990), the tightly confined standard that constrains a suppression hearing judge when reviewing the earlier decision of another judge to issue a search and seizure warrant based on that first judge’s finding of probable cause:

The…