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Chester v. State

Facts:

Defendant sought review of the judgments from the Circuit Court for Baltimore (Maryland), which convicted him of driving while under the influence (DUI) of drugs in contravention of Md. Ann. Code art. 66 1/2, § 11-902(a), and possession of barbiturates.

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Holdings:

The Maryland Court made the following holding:

• An appellate court cannot be precluded from determining whether the circumstances under which a confession is made were such that its admission in evidence amounts to a denial of due process. What is meant by the obligation to make an independent, reflective constitutional judgment on the facts whenever a claim of a constitutionally-protected right is involved is that, although the appellate court gives great weight to the findings of the hearing judge as to specific, first-level facts (such as the time that an interrogation began, whether a meal was or was not served, whether a telephone call was requested, etc.), the appellate court must make its own independent judgment as to what to make of those facts; the appellate court must, in making that independent judgment, resolve for itself the ultimate, second-level fact -- the existence or non-existence of a bona fide inventory.
• An essential requirement to a valid inventory search is that the police must have acted in good faith in conducting the inventory, and must not have used the inventory procedure as a subterfuge for a warrantless search. Where the conduct of the police was inconsistent with its contention that the search was conducted for inventory purposes, the search was unlawful.

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These summaries are provided by the SRIS Law Group. They represent the firm’s unofficial views of the Justices’ opinions. The original opinions should be consulted for their authoritative content.