Dabney v. State

CHARLES E. MOYLAN, Jr., Judge

(Retired, Specially Assigned).

The Baltimore County Police Department, after an obviously carefully prepared post-midnight surveillance of the appellant from the far northwestern corner of Baltimore County to its far southeastern corner—a surveillance involving six or seven unmarked police cars, a police helicopter, and the use of a highly sophisticated thermal imaging tracking device—ended up charging the appellant with attempted fourth-degree burglary. Attempted fourth-degree burglary? It smacks of convicting A1 Capone, after Elliot Ness had been on his trail for…