Lewis v. State

*353BATTAGLIA, J.

Petitioner, Lamont Anthony Lewis, seeks review of the denial of his motion to suppress the seizure of marijuana discovered during a traffic stop after Lewis “almost” struck a police car. We hold that the court erred in denying Lewis’s motion because the police did not have an articulable reasonable suspicion to stop Lewis based upon the fact that he “almost” hit the car.

I. Introduction

On April 27, 2005,1 at approximately 10:45 p.m., Sergeant Jeffery Jocuns, Detective Anthony Vaith, and Officer Tisha Anderson2 of the Baltimore City Police Department were in a marked police cruiser…