MOYLAN, J., delivered the opinion of the Court.
A review of the convictions for storehouse breaking and larceny of the appellant, Willie Lee Brown, Jr., in the Circuit Court for Dorchester County by a jury, presided over by Judge C. Burnam Mace, poses squarely the question, "When is `open view' not `Plain View'?"
The "Plain View Doctrine" is simply that it is constitutionally reasonable for the authorities to seize objects come upon by inadvertence during...
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