State v. Bell

KARWACKI, Judge.

Kevin Bell, a/k/a Kevin Rich 1 , was convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of one count of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, and one count of simple possession of cocaine. Prior to his trial, Bell moved to suppress 119 vials of cocaine, arguing that the cocaine was the fruit of an unlawful search of an automobile. The State countered that the automobile was lawfully searched pursuant to the inventory exception to the warrant requirement of the Fourth Amendment to the United States Constitution and Article 26 of the Maryland Declaration of…