Legal Opinion
Gamble v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided December 21, 1989No. 30, September Term, 1989PublishedCited by 48 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ADKINS, Judge.
This case presents questions of whether a police officer’s consent to a search of the trunk of his police cruiser was voluntary, and if so, whether the search of a container within the trunk exceeded the scope of the consent. The Court of Special Appeals upheld the validity of the search. Gamble v. State, 78 Md.App. 112, 552 A.2d 928 (1989). We shall affirm.1
*122I.
Although we shall review the pertinent facts in greater detail later, we now sketch them in order to place the issues in context.
Petitioner Oscar James Gamble was a plain-clothes member of the Prince George’s County Police…
2Cases cited21 opinions
- Miranda v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
- Schneckloth v. BustamonteSupreme Court of the United States · 1973
- Carroll v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1925
- United States v. MendenhallSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- United States v. RossSupreme Court of the United States · 1982
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3Cited by48 opinions
- Riddick v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1990
- McMillian v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1992
- In Re Tariq A-R-YCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 1997
- Miles v. StateCourt of Appeals of Maryland · 2001
- Perkins v. StateCourt of Special Appeals of Maryland · 1990
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