RICKS v. STATE

No. 55, September Term, 1987.

312 Md. 11 (1988)

537 A.2d 612

JAMES A. RICKS, KEVIN R. DeSHIELDS AND VAN ALLEN LEWIS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 4, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jose Felipe Anderson, Asst. Public Defender (Alan H. Murrell, Public Defender, on the brief) Baltimore, for appellants.

Jillyn K. Schulze, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on the brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, COLE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, ADKINS and BLACKWELL, JJ.


MURPHY, Chief Judge.

This case involves a challenge to the legality of a court order authorizing non-consensual video surveillance by police of suspected illegal drug activities within a residential apartment in Baltimore City. The central issue is whether this type of surveillance is permissible in view of the Maryland Wiretap and Electronic Surveillance Act (the Maryland Act), Maryland Code (1984), § 10-401 to 10-413 of the Courts and Judicial Proceedings Article...

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