Matoumba v. State

Appellant, Kobie Matoumba, was convicted, following a bench trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City, of possession of a handgun by a person previously convicted of a crime of violence. He was sentenced to a mandatory term of five years imprisonment -without parole, pursuant to Md.Code, Public Safety § 5-133(c)(2) (2003). In his appeal, appellant asserts that the circuit court erred in denying his motion to suppress, raising for our review three questions, which we have distilled to the following: 1

Did the motions court err in ruling that the arresting officers had reasonable articulable…