Attorneys for a civil rights group and the Baltimore Police Department battled Monday at a federal appeals court over the constitutionality of BPD’s use of aerial surveillance to fight crime and whether the constitutional challenge ended when the pilot program ...

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A Pocomoke City police officer’s tackling of a motorist stopped for allegedly being on his cellphone while driving invalidates the subsequent discovery of marijuana in the driver’s possession and car, a Maryland appeals court ruled after concluding the officer had ...

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ANNAPOLIS — Police have probable cause to arrest someone for marijuana possession and to search him or her if they clearly smell the drug on the person – even though possession of less than 10 grams of marijuana is not ...

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A federal appeals court on Friday upheld the carjacking conviction of a Baltimore man who in October 2015 led police on a high-speed car chase into Fort Meade and was caught emerging from a storm drain the next day. In ...

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Federal agents unconstitutionally searched a suspected Maryland sex trafficker’s laptop and cellphone without a warrant upon his return to the United States four years ago, a U.S. appeals court ruled Thursday. But the damning evidence was properly admitted at Raymond ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court is showing interest in the state’s appeal of a Maryland high-court decision that the pungent smell of raw, unsmoked marijuana emanating from a car during a traffic stop does not in itself enable police officers to ...

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