Section 10-912 - Failure to take defendant before judicial officer after arrest. - Maryland Statutes

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

(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. 
 

[1981, ch. 577; 1998, ch. 21, § 1.]