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MATOUMBA v. STATE

No. 47, September Term, 2005.

890 A.2d 288 (2006)

390 Md. 544

Kobie MATOUMBA v. STATE of Maryland.

Court of Appeals of Maryland.

January 12, 2006.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Francis A. Pommett, III (Law Offices of Nathanson & Pommett, P.C., Baltimore), on brief, for petitioner.

Steven L. Holcomb, Assistant Attorney General (J. Joseph Curran, Jr., Attorney General of Maryland, Baltimore), on brief, for respondent.

Argued before BELL, C.J., RAKER, WILNER, CATHELL, HARRELL, BATTAGLIA and GREENE, JJ.

RAKER, J.

The question presented in this case is whether a police officer, testifying at a suppression hearing, is required to be qualified as an expert witness regarding facts that gave rise to a reasonable suspicion justifying a stop and frisk of a suspect. We shall answer that question in the negative and affirm.

I.

Kobie Matoumba, petitioner, was convicted in a bench trial in the Circuit Court for Baltimore...

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