SCOTT v. STATE

No. 143, Sept. Term, 2000.

782 A.2d 862 (2001)

366 Md. 121

Aaron A. SCOTT v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

October 11, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Nancy S. Forster, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for appellant.

Gary E. Bair, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Maryland, and Michelle W. Cole, Staff Atty., on brief), Baltimore, for appellee.

Argued Before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, and BATTAGLIA, JJ.


WILNER, Judge.

Before us, for the first time, is the validity of a motel room search pursuant to a police technique called "knock and talk"— a technique that, in recent years, has become quite popular with police agencies around the country. The courts, on the whole, have sustained it. Petitioner, Aaron Scott, who, as a direct result of such a search, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Baltimore County of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and...

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