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How Park Police help ICE carry out deportation efforts in MD, DC area
U.S. Park Police in Washington collaborate with ICE in immigration arrests during traffic stops, targeting work vehicles on federal parkways.
4th Circuit upholds $730K award to Black Secret Service agent illegally detained in Md.
A federal appeals court upheld a jury’s $730,000 award to a Black Secret Service agent unconstitutionally detained by two white U.S. Park Police officers.
Court calls traffic stop search unconstitutional, reverses pot conviction
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, […]
Court of Appeals holds that deference is owed to traffic police
Administrative law judges must defer to a police officer’s reasonable belief that the motorist behind the steering wheel during a traffic stop was driving the car when the alleged violation […]
‘Look-in’ search of suspect’s underwear unconstitutional, Md. court says
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 […]
Here’s what happens when police pull over a driverless car
As self-driving cars become increasingly common on American streets, an obvious question arises: What happens when police want to pullover a robot-driven vehicle without a human backup driver?
CSA: Tinted car windows give police ‘reasonable suspicion’
A Maryland appeals court has issued a warning to out-of-state motorists who like their car windows heavily tinted.
Baltimore police oversight chairman cited in contentious traffic stop
The chairman of a Baltimore police oversight panel was cited in a contentious traffic stop after a court hearing on improving civilian-police relations.
Md. high court finds trunk search constitutional
Police officers were constitutionally justified in searching a car’s trunk for illegal drugs despite only finding them in a passenger’s possession during a traffic stop in Germantown and after a fruitless search of the vehicle’s interior, a divided Maryland high court ruled Friday.
Supreme Court rejects Maryland’s appeal of marijuana-frisk decision
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday declined Maryland’s request that the justices review a the state high court’s decision that the pungent smell of raw, unsmoked marijuana emanating from car […]
Marijuana laws eased but threat to police remains, Frosh tells justices
A strong smell of raw, unsmoked marijuana emanating from a car still justifies police frisking the vehicle’s passengers for weapons despite the increasing societal and legal acceptance of marijuana possession, […]
