State v. Harding: The Who, What, When, Where of “Strip Searches”
On December 10, 2010 Judge Moylan of the Court of Special Appeals attempted to make sense of Maryland’s prior case law regarding “strip searches.” Gregory Maurice Harding was stopped for speeding on September 10, 2009 after two detectives conducted undercover surveillance for an individual named Harding who was selling crack cocaine out of a blue Audi with the Maryland tag number 7EPG15, in the Towson and Parkville areas. During the traffic stop, a K-9 unit alerted officers t