PARKER v. STATE

No. 13, September Term, 1985.

66 Md. App. 1 (1986)

502 A.2d 510

WILLIS T. PARKER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

Certiorari Denied April 18, 1986.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara L. Matthews, Assistant Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Nicolette H. Prevost, Asst. Atty. Gen. (Stephen H. Sachs, Atty. Gen., Kurt L. Schmoke, State's Atty. for Baltimore City and Ruth Finch, Asst. State's Atty. for Baltimore City, on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before ALPERT and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ., and JAMES S. GETTY, Associate Judge of the Court of Special Appeals (retired), specially assigned.


ALPERT, Judge.

In this appeal we are called upon to determine what constitutes "reasonable grounds to believe that the person [charged with the traffic violation] will disregard [the] traffic citation," and whether subjecting that person to a warrantless arrest for a traffic violation was illegal.

Willis T. Parker, appellant, having been found guilty in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, contends on appeal...

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