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BACKSTROM v. UNITED STATES

No. 4696.

252 A.2d 909 (1969)

Neil Clifford BACKSTROM, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 7, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lawrence J. Winter, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Sandor Frankel, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Benton L. Becker, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and KERN and GALLAGHER, Associate Judges.

HOOD, Chief Judge:

This appeal questions the validity of a conviction for unlawful possession of marihuana.1 The facts are fairly simple and largely undisputed.

Appellant was stopped by a police officer for a traffic violation (backing when such movement could not be made with safety) and because he was an "out of state" driver (he had a California driver's license and his automobile bore California registration tags), he was required...

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