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RICKS v. STATE

No. 67, September Term, 1990.

322 Md. 183 (1991)

586 A.2d 183

GILBERT H. RICKS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

March 5, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alan L. Cohen (Paul Michael Polansky, P.A., both on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Thomas K. Clancy, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., both on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE and CHASANOW, JJ., and CHARLES E. ORTH, Jr. and MARVIN H. SMITH, Judges of the Court of Appeals (retired), Specially Assigned.

MURPHY, Chief Judge.

We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether, in the circumstances, a warrantless police search of a piece of luggage, conducted essentially contemporaneously with a valid arrest of the owner of the luggage, violated Fourth Amendment precepts.

I.

Gilbert Ricks was charged in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County with a number of drug offenses. Prior to trial, he moved to suppress a quantity of cocaine, marijuana and...

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