Ferguson v. State

COLE, Judge.

We are called upon in this case to determine whether the trial court erred in not suppressing the extrajudicial identification of the defendant as the fruit of an illegal arrest.

We recite the facts stipulated by the parties. In the early afternoon on October 22, 1982, three men accosted Clarence Welsh, a delivery truck driver for United Parcel Service, at gunpoint as he was completing his deliveries in the 1800 block of Fulton Avenue in Baltimore City. The men forced Welsh into the rear of the truck, where one man held a pistol flush to his head while another combed Welsh’s…