NEWPHER v. STATE

No. 76, Sept. Term, 1998.

722 A.2d 394 (1999)

124 Md. App. 349

Richard William NEWPHER v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

January 4, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Ross (Ross & Powell, on the brief), Centreville, for appellant.

Thomas K. Clancy, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., Baltimore, and David Weston Gregory, State's Atty. for Queen Anne's County, Centreville, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MOYLAN, SONNER and THEODORE G. BLOOM (retired, specially assigned), JJ.


SONNER, Judge.

This case arises from an increasingly routine law enforcement practice, that of requesting to search a vehicle whose driver has been stopped for a traffic offense. Here, a Queen Anne's County deputy sheriff, after completing a traffic citation for speeding, asked appellant whether he had any "guns or drugs" in his car, and after he received a negative reply, requested and allegedly received permission to conduct a search. The subsequent search revealed...

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