IN RE McDONALD

No. 2255.

153 A.2d 651 (1959)

Matter of Robert McDONALD, Darnell Cooper and Ronald Enrico Dobbins.

Municipal Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia.

Decided August 6, 1959.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William W. Pavis and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C. with whom Chester H. Gray, Corporation Counsel, Milton D. Korman, Principal Asst. Corporation Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corporation Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant. Albert S. Povich, Asst. Corporation Counsel, also entered an appearance for appellant.

Julius W. Robertson, Washington, D. C., with whom Dovey J. Roundtree and Bruce R. Harrison, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee McDonald.

Richard W. Tompkins, Washington, D. C., with whom Everett L. Edmond, Washington, D. C., was on the brief, for appellees Cooper and Dobbins.

With leave of court William Dean Embree and Sol Rubin, New York City, filed a brief as amici curiae for the National Probation and Parole Ass'n.

Before ROVER, Chief Judge, and HOOD and QUINN, Associate Judges.


ROVER, Chief Judge.

Pursuant to Code 1951, § 11-908, a petition was filed in the Juvenile Court alleging that the appellees unlawfully entered a public elementary school and set fires there causing damages in the amount of approximately $20,000. Midway through the hearing and before the Government had completed the presentation of its evidence, the court sua sponte dismissed the case when the Government refused to disclose the identity of its informants...

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