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- Title: Stokes v. State
- Author : In the Court of Appeals of Maryland
- Release Date : January 12, 2001
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 67 KB
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Glen Keith Stokes, the petitioner, was stopped by a Montgomery County police officer within thirty minutes of, and around the corner from where, a robbery had occurred. 1 The pat down search that followed resulted in the recovery of controlled dangerous substances, for the possession of which the petitioner was subsequently tried, convicted and sentenced. 2 Prior to trial, the petitioner moved to suppress the fruits of the search. The Circuit Court for Montgomery County denied the motion. The propriety of that ruling was the only issue presented on appeal to the Court of Special Appeals, which, in an unreported opinion, affirmed the petitioner's conviction and sentence. This Court granted the petitioner's Petition for Writ of Certiorari to consider ""whether a police officer's observation of a black man rapidly parking a car and exiting it, around the corner from the location of a robbery thirty minutes earlier, gave him reasonable articulable suspicion that the man was the robber sufficient to detain him and search him, thereby uncovering controlled dangerous substances . . . ."" 3 Answering that question in the negative, we shall reverse. I.