COX v. STATE

No. 39, September Term, 2006.

916 A.2d 311 (2007)

397 Md. 200

Artavius Donnell COX v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

February 8, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allison E. Pierce, Asst. Public Defender (Nancy S. Forster, Public Defender, on brief), for petitioner/cross-respondent.

Steven L. Holcomb, Asst. Atty. Gen. (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Atty. Gen., on brief), for respondent/cross-petitioner.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA, and GREENE, JJ.


GREENE, J.

In this case, we must determine whether Artavius Donnell Cox ("Petitioner") was entitled to have suppressed, as evidence at his trial, a quantity of marijuana that the police found on the ground near him, after an arguably illegal stop. The drugs seized in this case were recovered after the police obtained information that there existed an outstanding warrant for Petitioner's arrest. We are asked to review two issues. First, whether a police encounter,...

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