West v. State

RAYMOND G. THIEME, Jr., Judge,

Retired, Specially Assigned.

We are once again called upon to weigh, along that often enigmatic continuum we refer to as probable cause, the objectives of crime prevention and law enforcement against the individual protections provided to us through the guarantees of the Fourth Amendment.

A jury for the Circuit Court for Baltimore City convicted appellant Tyrone Antonio West of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, possession of cocaine, and possession of marijuana. West was sentenced to twenty years’ imprisonment, the first ten years without parole, and to…