§ 10-912. Failure to take defendant before judicial officer after arrest

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(a) Confession not rendered inadmissible. -- A confession may not be excluded from evidence solely because the defendant was not taken before a judicial officer after arrest within any time period specified by Title 4 of the Maryland Rules.

(b) Effect of failure to comply strictly with Title 4 of the Maryland Rules. -- Failure to strictly comply with the provisions of Title 4 of the Maryland Rules pertaining to taking a defendant before a judicial officer after arrest is only one factor, among others, to be considered by the court in deciding the voluntariness and admissibility of a confession.

HISTORY: 1981, ch. 577; 1998, ch. 21, § 1.

                    
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