A Frederick County police officer violated a woman’s constitutional rights by looking down her underwear during a highway-side search for hidden drugs after a traffic stop allegedly revealed cocaine in her car, Maryland’s second-highest court has ruled in overturning her ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court will not review whether drug-sniffing dog Simon’s failure to give a definitive alert to Ocean City police nevertheless gave the officers probable cause to search a car for illegal contraband. The justices on Monday let stand ...

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A drug-sniffing dog’s failure to give a definitive alert to Ocean City police forms the basis of a convicted would-be heroin dealer’s appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court. In his bid for high court review, Ryan Steck claims officers in ...

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Maryland’s second-highest court has upheld murder convictions in the 2015 slaying of a Port Deposit couple, ruling the trial judge properly applied Maryland’s police-friendlier law to officers’ controversial search of the fugitive killer’s New Jersey hideout, where incriminating evidence was ...

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The Court of Special Appeals upheld the conviction of a man who challenged the validity of a warrant that was based on observations police made when they arrested him in his home earlier that day. Curtis Groves pleaded guilty to ...

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Police officers’ discovery of small amounts of marijuana in a resident’s discarded trash does not justify a warrant to search the entire house, a federal appeals court said last week in ruling that guns found in a Fort Washington home ...

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The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined without comment to review a Maryland high-court decision that appellate courts must defer to trial judges’ determinations – unless clearly wrong – that a drug-sniffing dog was reliable.

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A Maryland appeals court has issued a warning to out-of-state motorists who like their car windows heavily tinted.

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Maryland Public Defender Paul B. DeWolfe  has urged the U.S. Supreme Court to review and overturn the state high court’s decision requiring appellate courts to defer to trial judges’ determinations – unless clearly wrong —  that a drug-sniffing dog was ...

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