Brown v. State

The case at bar is an interlocutory appeal filed by the State1 from an Order in the Circuit Court for Dorchester County, granting Terrance J. Brown’s motion to suppress statements obtained in violation of Miranda v. Arizona, 384 U.S. 486, 86 S.Ct. 1602, 16 L.Ed.2d 694 (1966). The Court of Special Appeals, in an unreported opinion, reversed. We granted Brown’s petition for writ of certiorari, and after briefing and argument, ordered that this matter be remanded, without affirmance or reversal, to the suppression court for the sole purpose of the entry of findings of fact on the issue of…