Court of Appeals of Maryland January 26, 2011, 149, September Term 2009 (Hill v. State)

HARRELL, J.,

in which BATTAGLIA and MURPHY, JJ., join.

I dissent. The verbal guile exhibited by Detective McLaughlin in his thirty-minute questioning of Hill, which followed Hill’s recorded telephone conversation with the victim, did not cross the line into the prohibited territory of promises, threats, or inducements, such as would render Hill’s interview statements involuntary under Maryland