Wilkinson v. State

GARRITY, Judge.

The sole issue presented in this case is whether a chemist’s report and an envelope containing cocaine and marijuana should have been excluded from evidence because the State failed to produce one of the persons in the chain of custody.

On the early morning of October 10, 1987, Officer T.B. Keifline of the Greenbelt City Police was patrolling Maryland Route 201. A little after 1:00 a.m. he observed a Volkswagen traveling 72 miles per hour in a 50-mile-per-hour speed zone. He stopped the Volkswagen, and when he approached it he smelled a strong odor of marijuana. Vincent Craig…