applying the inducement rule to the conduct of the State's Attorney, who told the defendant, " 'Tell the truth about it. You’ve got nothing to fear if you tell the truth, and you weren't in it' "
How later courts described this case
- applying the inducement rule to the conduct of the State's Attorney, who told the defendant, " 'Tell the truth about it. You’ve got nothing to fear if you tell the truth, and you weren't in it' "
Written by the judges who cited it.
The opinion
There being, in the opinion of a majority of the Court, error in the rulings involved in the exceptions in this case, relating to the Littman robbery, numbered forty to fifty-nine, inclusive, it is by the Court of Appeals of Maryland this 9th day of April, 1925,
Ordered : That the judgments against each appellant in this case be and the same are hereby reversed and the case remanded as to each for a new trial.