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CURTIS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 3895, 3897.

222 A.2d 840 (1966)

Shirley A. CURTIS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Shirley A. CURTIS, Appellant, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 3, 1966.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

T. Emmett McKenzie, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Charles A. Mays, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., and Frank Q. Nebeker and Edward T. Miller, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee in No. 3895.

Ted D. Kuemmerling, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Milton D. Korman, Acting Corp. Counsel, and Hubert B. Pair, Asst. Corp. Counsel, were on the brief, for appellee in Nos. 3896 and 3897.

Before QUINN and MYERS, Associate Judges and CAYTON (Chief Judge, Retired).

QUINN, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted of vagrancy, disorderly conduct and possession of narcotics. These appeals question the legality of her arrest and the subsequent search and seizure of the narcotics.

The undisputed facts indicate that appellant, in the early hours of the morning, left a local hotel by a side door, setting off a burglar alarm. A member of the hotel staff found her outside, and after she had willingly returned to the lobby with...

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