Legal Opinion
Cotton v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided April 11, 2005No. 29, September Term, 2004PublishedCited by 19 opinions
1Opinion of the CourtWilner, J.
On an agreed statement of facts, petitioner, Steven Cotton, was convicted in the Circuit Court for Caroline County of possession of marijuana, for which, as a repeat offender, he was sentenced to two years in prison. That judgment was affirmed by the Court of Special Appeals. The marijuana that formed the basis of his conviction was taken from him by Caroline County Detective James Henning when Cotton, after receiving Miranda warnings, admitted to Henning that he had the drug in his possession. Cotton’s only complaint is that, at the time of this encounter with Detective Henning, he was under…
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