The Maryland Supreme Court, hearing arguments in a special session Friday at Easton High School, struggled with where to draw a line between the ability of police to stop a driver for using a cell phone and opening large numbers of drivers to unwarranted police stops. (Photo by William J. Ford/Maryland Matters)
Maryland’s highest court was asked Friday to determine how much a driver has to be handling a phone before police have sufficient reason to pull the driver over for using a cell phone while driving.
The case stems from Michael Eugene Stone’s 2023 stop and subsequent arrest on drug charges in Hagerstown, after police saw him “touch” or tap the screen of his dash-mounted phone in a way they said looked like he might be texting or making a call…