Hi,
My boyfriend was arrested for possession of a handgun. He is a convicted one time non-violent felon. The gun in question was planted on him by a crooked police officer that had arrested him in a previous charge but was thrown out do to racial profiling and illegal search and seizure. With this current charge of possesion he falls under Maryland's Exile Law which was recently adapted about 3 years ago.
His attorney is telling him that if he gets the courts to drop the case; the FEDS might pick it up! The state has postponned the case since February 17, 2007 to the current. I believe they don't have enough evidence or probable cause for the charge itself. In the statement of charges the police officers said that he was grabbing at his waist was the reason for the original stop. But what i dont understand is he was walking into a residential area; he could of been retrieving keys or even trying to access his cell phone. Do you think this was probable cause enough to stop someone? In my opinion they stopped him because they knew him and that he fit the profile of a drug dealer by the clothes that he was wearing. (White teeshirt and baggy jeans)

