ROWE v. STATE

No. 73, Sept. Term, 1999.

769 A.2d 879 (2001)

363 Md. 424

Astley Leroy ROWE v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

April 4, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julia Doyle Bernhardt, Asst. Public Defender (Stephen E. Harris, Public Defender, on brief), Baltimore, for petitioner.

Steven L. Holcomb, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen. of Maryland, on brief), Baltimore, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., and ELDRIDGE, RODOWSKY, RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, JJ.


BELL, Chief Judge.

The issue this case presents is the legality of a traffic stop of the petitioner, Astley Leroy Rowe, in the early morning hours, based on a State Trooper observing the van the petitioner was driving cross, by about eight inches, the white edge-line separating the shoulder from the traveled portion of the highway, return to the travel portion and, a short time later, touch the white edge line. In view of the trooper's knowledge that, at the time...

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