Archie v. State

How courts have described this case

Verbatim parenthetical descriptions written by other courts when citing this decision. Ranked by citation-network relevance.

• holding that the evidence was sufficient to support that the defendant had knowledge of certain drugs, where drugs were found in both the kitchen and the bathroom and the defendant was discovered in the bathroom attempting to flush the drugs down the toilet
• “Knowledge of the presence and illicit nature of narcotics may be proven by inference from the circumstances as a whole.”
• a good knock and announcement followed almost immediately by a forcing of the door

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).

Cited by

7 cases in this archive cite this case.

• Handy v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-08-31· cited 17×
• McIntyre v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2006-04-28· cited 13×
• State v. Savage
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2006-09-08· cited 11×
• Taylor v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2007-06-28· cited 8×
• Brewer v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2014-10-29· cited 4×
• Moseley v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2020-04-08· cited 2×
• Scott v. State
  Court of Special Appeals of Maryland· 2025-12-17