Legal Opinion
Sutton v. State
Court of Special Appeals of Maryland
Decided September 29, 1999No. 1517, Sept. Term, 1998PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THIEME, Judge.
Appellant was found guilty by a jury in the Circuit Court for Baltimore City of possession of cocaine and related offenses. The offenses were merged, and appellant was sentenced as a second offender to ten years of imprisonment without parole. This appeal followed and presents the following questions:
1. Did the trial court err in denying the appellant’s motion to suppress?
2. Did the State fail to establish that the appellant could be sentenced as a subsequent offender?
We answer “no” to both of these questions.
Facts
On March 21, 1997, officers of the Baltimore City Police…
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