Stevenson v. State

Petitioners Robert Louis Stevenson, Jr. and Kent Alton Wilson were convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County of two counts of robbery with a deadly weapon and one count of using a handgun in the commission of a crime of violence. When on appeal the intermediate appellate court affirmed these convictions, this Court granted certiorari to review the following questions:(1) Whether the Court of Special Appeals erred in holding that "a citizen’s arrest” (in this case, police officers acting outside of their territorial jurisdiction) were beyond the scope of…