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DENNIS v. STATE

No. 18, September Term, 1995.

342 Md. 196 (1996)

BRUCE LAMONT DENNIS v. STATE OF MARYLAND.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

Reconsideration Denied May 3, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George E. Burns, Jr., Assistant Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for Petitioner.

Mary Ellen Barbera, 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.

BELL, Justice.

This case presents the issue of whether a passenger in a vehicle whose driver has been stopped by police for a traffic violation may be convicted of disorderly conduct and battery when, rather than heeding the police command to remain in the vehicle, he walks away from the scene, and subsequently resists police attempts at detention. The Circuit Court for Somerset County found the petitioner, Bruce Lamont Dennis, guilty of disorderly conduct and battery...

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