Ciriago v. State

Decision Date25 June 1984
Citation476 A.2d 721,300 Md. 152
PartiesCiriago (Joseph Francis) v. State NO. 65 SEPT. TERM 1984
CourtMaryland Court of Appeals

Reported below: 57 Md.App. 563, 471 A.2d 320.

Denied.

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    • Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
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    • Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
    • December 7, 1998
    ... ...         This Court did not hesitate to hold that police at an accident scene, as part of their community caretaking function, may enter the otherwise constitutionally protected interior of an automobile to come to the aid of an injured occupant. Ciriago v. State, 57 Md.App. 563, 569-70, 471 A.2d 320 (1984) ...         In Burks v. State, 96 Md.App. 173, 195-98, 624 A.2d 1257, cert. denied, 332 Md. 381, 631 A.2d 451 (1993), this Court approved, as inherently reasonable, the warrantless entry 721 A.2d 283 by the police into a ... ...
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    • Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
    • October 8, 1987
    ... ...         While an appellate court is required to make its own independent determination of the constitutional effect of the facts found by the lower court, Ciriago v. State, 57 Md.App. 563, 573, 471 A.2d 320, cert. den., 300 Md. 152, 476 A.2d 721 (1984), in evaluating the credibility of witnesses, the appellate court "must give great weight to the findings of the trial judge with respect to those first level facts." Borgen v. State, 58 Md.App. 61, 79, 472 ... ...
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    • Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
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    ... ... We need not reiterate our analysis of the evidence on this issue, but we simply state that, for the reasons delineated above, this was a question for the jury to decide ...         Snorkel further argues that the trial court ... I agree. In my opinion, just as Ciriago v. State, 57 Md.App. 563, 471 A.2d 320, cert. denied, 300 Md. 152, 476 A.2d 721 (1984), presented us with the "very model of the bona fide inventory ... ...
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