A Baltimore police detective saw the outline of a gun through Steven Hicks’s shirt. He stopped him and searched his satchel. But according to a new ruling from the Appellate Court of Maryland, that stop violated the U.S. Constitution.
Hicks held a license to carry a firearm without restrictions. The court decided that simply seeing a gun “printing” through someone’s clothing does not give law enforcement the right to stop and search them.
Judge Kathryn Grill Graeff wrote the opinion for the court, explaining that officers need more than just the sight of a weapon to justify a stop…