Garrison v. State

JAMES C. MORTON, Jr., Judge.

This case presents the question whether a search warrant particularly describing one apartment authorizes a search of an adjacent apartment and a seizure of goods therein, when police executing the warrant mistakenly believed that the search which they conducted was of the premises covered by the warrant.

On May 21, 1982, Detective Albert Marcus of the Baltimore City Police Department applied for a warrant to search the dwelling of Lawrence Meril McWebb. Detective Marcus alleged in an affidavit in support of a search warrant that he had met with a “proven…