State v. Stone

State of Maryland v. Michael Eugene Stone, No. 16, September Term, 2025 FOURTH AMENDMENT – TRAFFIC STOP – REASONABLE SUSPICION – TEXTING WHILE DRIVING – Supreme Court of Maryland held that where conduct observed by officer is consistent with legal or illegal use of mobile phone, to justify traffic stop, police officer must be able to credibly identify specific facts, not applicable to general law-abiding public, “which, taken together with rational inferences from those facts,” Terry v. Ohio,

392 U.S. 1, 21

(1968), under totality of circumstances, reasonably establish that violation of Md. Code…