GAMBLE v. STATE

No. 726, September Term, 1988.

78 Md. App. 112 (1989)

552 A.2d 928

OSCAR JAMES GAMBLE v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

February 1, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Benjamin R. Wolman (Wolman & Lucchi, on the brief), Upper Marlboro, for appellant.

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and Alexander Williams, Jr., State's Atty. for Prince George's County of Upper Marlboro, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before GILBERT, C.J., and WILNER and ROSALYN B. BELL, JJ.


GILBERT, Chief Judge.

If this case were being reported by True Detective or some other crime journal, it would probably be titled: "Gamble's Gamble." It is a tale about a police officer who forgot on which side of the law he was supposed to be. Officer Oscar James Gamble yielded to the temptation of "pocketing" $10,000 discovered in a "drug bust" and ended up in the dock.

The Facts

On the parking lot of a Prince George's County motel, Gamble...

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