Long v. State

MURPHY, Chief Judge. *

In this case we decide whether a circuit court may reconsider a pretrial ruling in which it granted a motion to suppress evidence that the defendant had claimed came from an unlawful search and seizure. We conclude that it may not.

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Maryland Rule 4-252 governs the filing of motions in criminal cases in Maryland’s circuit courts. Subsection (h)(2) of Rule 4-252 specifies the results that follow when a circuit court grants or denies a defendant’s motion to suppress evidence. That subsection provides as follows:

If the court grants a motion to suppress evidence, the evidence…