Baldwin v. State

— THE LAW —

Judge J. Dudley Digges, writing for a unanimous Court of Appeals, declared that the Federal Wire Interception and Interception of Oral Communications sections (18 U.S.C. §§ 2510-2520 (1976)) of the Omnibus Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968 "sets up a strict procedure that must be followed and we will not abide any deviation, no matter how slight, from the prescribed path.” (Emphasis in original.) State v. Siegel, 266 Md. 256, 274, 292 A.2d 86, 95 (1972), aff'g 13 Md. App. 444, 285 A.2d 671 (1971).

Although the above-quoted words of Siegel have not been chiseled into…