Legal Opinion
Waters v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided July 3, 1990No. 147, September Term, 1989PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Chief Judge.
At a nonjury trial in the Circuit Court for Anne Arundel County (Goudy, J.), DeWayne Waters was convicted of possession of cocaine and sentenced to a term of imprisonment. During the pendency of his appeal before the Court of Special Appeals, we granted certiorari on our own motion to decide whether, as Waters claimed, the Fourth Amendment prohibition against unreasonable searches and seizures was applicable in the circumstances of this case.
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On the evening of May 16, 1988, Paul Madden was employed as a security guard at Wayson’s Corner in Anne Arundel County. He accosted…
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