Legal Opinion
Wood v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided November 3, 2010No. 1378, Sept. Term, 2009PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
CHARLES E. MOYLAN, JR., J. (Retired, Specially Assigned).
The leitmotif of this opinion is that the unreliability of an extrajudicial identification is not an exclusionary factor. It is rather the case that the reliability of such an identification is an ameliorative factor that precludes exclusion. Although both items are, to be sure, related in one way or another to the phenomenon of sinking, we must not confuse the lifeboat with the torpedo. The purpose of a reliability inquiry can only truly be understood when constitutional identification law is viewed in historic perspective. The danger…
2Cases cited25 opinions
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- Simmons v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
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