State v. Mason

The appellee, Paul Andrew Mason, Jr., was indicted by the Allegany County Grand Jury for the possession of cocaine with the intent to distribute and related charges. The appellee moved, pretrial, to have the physical evidence suppressed on the ground that it had been unreasonably seized pursuant to the Fourth Amendment. Following a hearing on the motion in the Circuit Court for Allegany County on August 22 and August 31, 2006, and the submission of written memoranda by all parties, Judge Gary G. Leasure, on September 15, 2006, issued an Opinion and Order in which he granted the appellee’s…