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237 Md. 663

Bloombaum v. State

Court of Appeals of Maryland

Decided March 15, 1965

Court of Appeals of Maryland · decided 1965-03-15

Cited by 1 later decisions — most recently May 1967

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Decided 1965-03-15

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Per Curiam.

¶1Appellant was convicted in the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, under Information 5619, of unlawfully having in his possession and under his control a narcotic drug, and unlawfully having a hypodermic syringe and needle in his possession for the purpose of unlawfully administering habit-forming drugs.

¶2Represented here by experienced and able counsel, appellant concedes that if his arrest were legal, his conviction was justified.

¶3The exact attack on the arrest is not explicitly pinpointed, but it apparently is a claim that police officers arrested appellant without an arrest warrant and without probable cause to believe that a felony had been committed and that he committed it; and the arrest was not for a misdemeanor committed in the officers’ presence. However, during a full evidentiary hearing on the legality, vel non, of the arrest, the officers testified that at the time of the arrest, they had in their possession an arrest warrant for appellant, it was read to him, and one officer remembered “cepiing” it.

¶4This evidence is not contradicted, and no attack is made upon the validity of the arrest warrant. No citation of authority is necessary to sustain the proposition that an arrest made by police officers in executing a valid arrest warrant is lawful, both under state and federal standards.

¶5Judgment and sentence affirmed, costs to be paid by appellant.

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