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SMITH v. DANIELCZYK

No. 133, Sept. Term, 2006.

928 A.2d 795 (2007)

400 Md. 98

Robert Leo Donald SMITH, et al. v. Scott DANIELCZYK, et al.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

July 25, 2007.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarke F. Ahlers, Columbia, for appellants.

Jordan V. Watts, Jr., Deputy Legal Counsel (Karen Stakem Hornig, Chief Counsel, Baltimore Police Dept. of Baltimore, George Nilson, City Solicitor, Baltimore City Law Dept. of Baltimore, on brief), for appellees.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, GREENE, and ALAN M. WILNER, (Retired, Specially Assigned), JJ.

WILNER, J.

The principal issues in this case are what, if any, privilege or immunity police officers have (1) for making allegedly false defamatory statements in an application for a search warrant, and (2) for voluntarily disclosing those statements to the news media.1 We shall hold that, to the extent they may apply under the particular factual circumstances, police officers have the common law qualified immunity enjoyed generally by...

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