Court Opinion

ID: 9785039
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Date Created: 2023-08-30 21:01:29.207637+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:36:03.780385
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MURPHY, J.,
concurring and dissenting, in which BELL, C.J. joins.
I agree that the Petitioner is entitled to a new trial. I dissent, however, from the majority’s conclusion that the detective’s improper promise of confidentiality “did not render Petitioner’s statements involuntary under either federal or state constitutional law, or Maryland common law.” In my opinion, an incriminating statement that results from a promise of confidentiality is simply not the product of a “knowing and intelligent” waiver.1 I would therefore hold that, on remand, the State is prohibited from making any use — direct or derivative — of anything that Petitioner stated after being told, “this is just between you and me[.]”
Chief Judge BELL has authorized me to state that he joins in this concurring and dissenting opinion.

. My opinion is consistent with State v. Carroll, 138 N.H. 687, 645 A.2d 82, 85 (1994), State v. Stanga, 617 N.W.2d 486, 490-91 (S.D.2000), and United States v. Conley, 859 F.Supp. 830, 845-46 (W.D.Pa.1994), which are cited in Andrew V. Jezic, Frank Molony & William E. Nolan, Maryland Law of Confessions § 3:12 at 93 (2006), as well as with State v. Burr, 126 Ariz. 338, 615 P.2d 635, 637 (1980); State v. Tamerius, 234 Neb. 121, 449 N.W.2d 535, 537 (1989); United States v. Walton, 10 F.3d 1024, 1031 (3d Cir.1993); State v. McConkie, 755 A.2d 1075, 1077-79 (Me.2000); State v. Pillar, 359 N.J.Super. 249, 820 A.2d 1, 11-12 (2003); Jones v. State, 65 P.3d 903, 907-08 (Alaska App.2003); and State v. Parker, 160 N.H. 203, 999 A.2d 314, 320 (2010).