Legal Opinion
Groves v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 21, 2018No. 2146, September Term, 2017PublishedCited by 1 opinion
1Opinion of the CourtMoylan, J.
*698Our primary focus on this appeal is on the protective sweep as an incident of lawful arrest. The appeal is a primer of Fourth Amendment law because of the plenitude of issues it raises. On December 14, 2017, the appellant, Curtis Groves, entered conditional guilty pleas to 1) the possession of heroin with intent to distribute and 2) the possession of a firearm in a drug trafficking crime before Judge Mark K. Boyer in the Circuit Court for Washington County. On the two convictions, the appellant was sentenced to an aggregate term of 32 years of incarceration with all but 26 years suspended.…
2Cases cited26 opinions
- Terry v. OhioSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Coolidge v. New HampshireSupreme Court of the United States · 1971
- Michigan v. LongSupreme Court of the United States · 1983
- Maryland v. BuieSupreme Court of the United States · 1990
- Segura v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
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