DERRICOTT v. STATE

No. 133, September Term, 1990.

327 Md. 582 (1992)

611 A.2d 592

DARONE ANTONIO DERRICOTT v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

August 26, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip H. Armstrong (Heeney, Armstrong & Heeney, on brief), Rockville, for petitioner.

Mary Ellen Barbera, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, McAULIFFE, CHASANOW and J. WILLIAM HINKEL, Administrative Judge of the Third Judicial Circuit of Maryland (Specially Assigned), JJ.


McAULIFFE, Judge.

This case, although involving an initial traffic stop that was concededly valid, ultimately turns on the question of whether the officers who thereafter conducted a limited weapons search of the defendant's vehicle had a reasonable suspicion supported by articulable facts that the defendant was engaged in criminal activity, and that the defendant was armed and dangerous. The trial judge and the Court of Special Appeals found that the facts supported...

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