GADSON v. STATE

No. 25, September Term, 1995.

341 Md. 1 (1995)

TYRONE JEROME GADSON v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

December 7, 1995.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia Doyle Bernhardt, Assistant Public Defender, (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Thomas K. Clancy, Assistant Attorney General, (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, on brief), Baltimore, for Respondent.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, CHASANOW, KARWACKI, BELL and RAKER, JJ.


CHASANOW, Judge.

The question presented in this case is whether the State may constitutionally detain a prospective visitor to a prison long enough to conduct a "canine sniff" of the visitor's motor vehicle after the visitor, upon being told of the procedure, objects and expresses a desire to leave without entering the prison. While it is absolutely proper to require the visitor to submit to such a detention as a condition of entry, we hold that absent reasonable...

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