WHITTLESEY v. UNITED STATES

No. 3798.

221 A.2d 86 (1966)

David H. WHITTLESEY, Pamela C. Haynes, Marta C. Kusic, Carol J. Lawson, Jessie W. McQueen, Sheila P. Ryan, and Robert E. Wooten, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 5, 1966.

Rehearing Denied August 9, 1966.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Herbert O. Reid and Frank D. Reeves, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Thomas Lumbard, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Robert E. Jordan, III, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


HOOD, Chief Judge.

On March 11, 1965, appellants entered the White House through the "tourist line" during the regular visiting hours between 10:00 a. m. and 12:00 noon. At 11:15 Major Stover, the Commanding Officer of the White House Police, found twelve people, including appellants, seated in the hallway in front of the library in such fashion as to block off the tourists from the ground floor corridor. He told the group to move but their spokesman replied that...

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