Court of Appeals of Maryland· 1/14/2010

Bailey v. State

Citations

987 A.2d 72
412 Md. 349
2010 Md. LEXIS 7

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holding that an officer could not seize what he recognized as a glass vial because “the incriminating nature of the object in the defendant's pocket was not immediately apparent upon his initial touch of the object in the pat-down”
stating that a Terry frisk “is limited to a pat-down of the outer clothing” and its purpose is “not to discover evidence of a crime, but rather to protect the police officer and bystanders from harm by checking for weapons[.]”
proceeding to determine whether probable cause existed, after holding that Bailey’s detention was a de facto arrest and not a Terry stop
restraining a person in order to frisk without suspicion of weapons is a de facto arrest
defining a “frisk” as a “pat-down of [an individual’s] outer clothing[.]”
“In the case of a search incident to arrest, the State must show that probable cause supported a lawful arrest before the officer conducted the search.”

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Judges: Greene

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