SKINNER v. STATE

No. 529, September Term, 1971.

16 Md. App. 116 (1972)

293 A.2d 828

MICHAEL THOMAS SKINNER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Decided August 10, 1972.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Lilly for appellant.

Gilbert Rosenthal, Assistant Attorney General, with whom were Francis B. Burch, Attorney General, Fulton P. Jeffers, State's Attorney for Wicomico County, Samuel A. Green, Jr., State's Attorney for Baltimore County, and Stuart E. Hirsch, Assistant State's Attorney for Baltimore County, on the brief, for appellee.

The cause was argued before MORTON, THOMPSON and MOYLAN, JJ.


MOYLAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.

Even the most conscientious police find it difficult to please convicted defendants. The almost universal plaint, following a successful warrantless search of an automobile, is that the police should have immobilized the car and then obtained a warrant for its search. In the case at bar, they did just that. Unpropitiated, the appellant, Michael Thomas Skinner, still manages...

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