BAITH v. STATE

No. 1748, September Term, 1990.

89 Md. App. 385 (1991)

598 A.2d 762

NAJEE ABDUL BAITH, AKA TOMMY LEE CARTER v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

November 29, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence W. Sharp, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on the brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

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

Argued before MOYLAN, BISHOP and FISCHER, JJ.


MOYLAN, Judge.

In law, the difficulty is frequently not one of finding the right answer but one of asking the right question. We are here called upon to answer whether a police intrusion into a private building, possibly an office or possibly a home, was justified. For sake of argument, we will assume it to have been a home. It is impossible to provide an answer until a properly focused question pinpoints for us precisely what the intrusion was and when the intrusion...

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