Radcliffe v. State

Ronald Radcliffe, Michael Lee Hernandez and David John Vucci were charged by an information with being rogues and vagabonds. Radcliffe, the appellant on this appeal, separately tried at a court trial in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, was found guilty and sentenced to 18 months. 1 He con tends that a search and seizure of evidence incident to his arrest was unreasonable because his warrantless arrest was illegal and that the evidence was not sufficient to sustain his conviction.

THE FACTS

Detective-Sergeant Thomas Mosley, assigned to the Silver Spring Detective Bureau, Montgomery…