Court Opinion

ID: 9733321
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 17:02:59.810128+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:26:40.474026
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*334Bruñe, C. J.,
filed the following dissenting opinion.
As in Stewart v. State, 232 Md. 318, 193 A. 2d 40, I dissent for the reasons set forth in my dissent in Prescoe v. State, 231 Md. 486, 191 A. 2d 226. The illegal information obtained during the arrest admitted to be unlawful served as the basis for the search and the search was, therefore, a product of the information so obtained. The information subsequently obtained from the defendant’s employer was also a product of the statement which I think was improperly obtained and could not be used as the basis for obtaining further information. Evidence unlawfully obtained not only is inadmissible, but cannot be used at all. Silverthorne Lumber Co. v. United States, 251 U.S. 385, 392, quoted in Wong Sun v. United States, 371 U.S. 471.