Ezenwa v. State

ROBERT M. BELL, Judge.

Henry Nnaondi Ezenwa, Theophilus Chudi Obi, and Samson Okoroafor, appellants, were convicted by a jury in the Circuit Court for Prince George’s County of conspiracy to import heroin into Maryland and conspiracy to distribute heroin. Each was sentenced to concurrent fifteen year terms of imprisonment. Aggrieved, each has appealed, raising essentially identical issues: 1

1. Did the trial court err in permitting a police officer to interpret facially innocuous conversations as drug-related in the absence of any foundation establishing that the participants were involved in…