Legal Opinion
Smith v. Danielczyk
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided July 25, 2007No. 133, Sept. Term, 2006PublishedCited by 73 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilner, J.
The principal issues in this case are what, if any, privilege or immunity police officers have (1) for making allegedly false defamatory statements in an application for a search warrant, and (2) for voluntarily disclosing those statements to the news media. 1 We shall hold that, to the extent they may apply under the particular factual circumstances, police officers have the common law qualified immunity enjoyed generally by public officials and the statutory protection afforded by the State Tort Claims Act or the Local Government Tort Claims Act, but that they do not enjoy any absolute…
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