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<section article="gcj" article_name="Courts and Judicial Proceedings" number="10-912" title_number="10" title_name="Evidence" subtitle_number="9" subtitle_name="Miscellaneous Rules">
  <level label="a">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
  <level label="b">
    <text>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.</text>
  </level>
</section>
