A trial date for Carl O. Snowden, the former civil rights chief within the Maryland attorney general’s office arrested on marijuana possession charges this spring, has been set for Aug. 6 in Baltimore district court.
Snowden, who took a leave of absence from his job the day after his arrest, was sitting with another man — a convicted sex offender — in a 2010 Honda Pilot parked in Druid Hill on April 19, according to police charging documents. Officers driving an unmarked car pulled alongside and said they smelled a "strong odor" of marijuana and spotted a cigar they suspected contained the drug.
