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CHARITY v. STATE

No. 1949, Sept. Term, 1999.

753 A.2d 556 (2000)

132 Md. App. 598

Kendrick Orlando CHARITY v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Special Appeals of Maryland.

June 8, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William P. Robinson, Jr. (Robinson and Anderson, on the brief), Norfolk, VA, for appellant.

Kathryn Grill Graeff, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General, Baltimore and David R. Ruark, State's Attorney for Wicomico County, Salisbury, on the brief), for appellee.

Argued before MOYLAN, WENNER and BYRNES, JJ.

MOYLAN, Judge.

If there is a lesson to be learned from this case, it is that when the police are permitted a very broad but persistently controversial investigative prerogative,1 they would be well advised, even when not literally required to do so, to exercise that prerogative with restraint and moderation, lest they lose it. In Whren v. United States, 517 U.S. 806

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