Fooks v. State

Summary

The court held that Maryland's prohibition on firearm possession by a person convicted of a common-law crime and sentenced to more than two years is, in substance, a felon-dispossession law. Applying the Second Amendment's text-and-history framework as clarified by the requirement to identify relevant regulatory principles, the court concluded that the statute is facially constitutional and constitutional as applied to Fooks. The court affirmed the judgment upholding Fooks's convictions.