RUFFIN v. STATE

No. 72, September Term, 1988.

77 Md. App. 93 (1988)

549 A.2d 411

KENNETH T. RUFFIN v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

As Amended December 13, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia Doyle Bernhardt, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Norman L. Smith, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Andrew L. Sonner, State's Atty. for Montgomery County, Rockville, on the brief), for appellee.

Submitted before GILBERT, C.J., MOYLAN, and ROBERT M. BELL, JJ.


MOYLAN, Judge.

The interesting aspect of this case is the opportunity to observe the fundamentally different natures of the contrasting issues of Fourth Amendment applicability and Fourth Amendment satisfaction. The former is concerned solely with the coverage of the Fourth Amendment; the latter, with the merits of Fourth Amendment reasonableness. The former involves the very threshold of the entitlement to litigate; the latter involves the actual merits of that litigation...

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