If all of the law's language about the preference that should be extended to a warrant actually means anything, it clearly implies that if at a suppression hearing, for example, the State needed a grade of "C" to sustain a warrantless search, it would almost certainly squeak by with a grade of "D" if it had gone to the trouble of getting a search warrant. That, after all, is the reward for getting a warrant. Although it is difficult to quantify the difference, there is a difference.


State v. Johnson, 2012 Md. App. LEXIS 146 (Md. Ct. Spec. App. Nov. 30, 2012)