United States Fourth Circuit

In a prosection for possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, being a felon in possession of a firearm, and knowingly using and carrying a firearm in furtherance of a drug trafficking crime, the convictions are: 1) affirmed in part, where a) police officers' detention of the defendant's car was supported by reasonable, articulable suspicion, and b) the 55-minute period between the beginning of the detention and the arrival of the canine narcotics unit did not result in an unlawful seizure of the car; and 2) reversed as to two of the three counts, where the admission of prior "bad act" evidence was error, and its admission was not harmless.

Appellate Information

• Decided 04/23/2012
• Published 04/23/2012

Judges

• Barbara Milano Keenan

Court

• United States Fourth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Jessica Ann Salvini, Jeffrey Mikell Johnson