EVANS v. STATE

No. 159, Sept. Term 1996.

688 A.2d 28 (1997)

113 Md. App. 347

Dwight EVANS v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

January 29, 1997.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roland Walker (Walker & Van Bavel, P.A., Janis R. Harvey and Norman Hochberg, on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellant.

Thomas K. Clancy, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General and Patricia Jessamy, State's Attorney for Baltimore City, on the brief), Baltimore, for Appellee.

Argued before MURPHY, C.J., and MOYLAN and SONNER, JJ.


MOYLAN, Judge.

Of the small and selective list of specifically established, jealously guarded, tightly circumscribed, and well delineated exceptions to the Fourth Amendment's warrant requirement, two command our attention here. One is the oldest and most significant of them; the other is arguably the youngest and least significant.

Our first concern will be with the constitutional requirements of a search incident to lawful arrest. With respect to that exception...

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