Legal Opinion
Ricks v. State
Court of Appeals of Maryland
Decided March 5, 1991No. 67, September Term, 1990PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
MURPHY, Chief Judge.
We granted certiorari in this case to determine whether, in the circumstances, a warrantless police search of a piece of luggage, conducted essentially contemporaneously with a valid arrest of the owner of the luggage, violated Fourth Amendment precepts.
I
Gilbert Ricks was charged in the Circuit Court for Wicomico County with a number of drug offenses. Prior to trial, he moved to suppress a quantity of cocaine, marijuana and related paraphernalia which the police had seized following a search of his luggage. Ricks claimed, inter alia, that absent a search warrant, the…
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