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ADAMS v. UNITED STATES

No. 4871.

256 A.2d 563 (1969)

John P. ADAMS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 26, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Frank D. Reeves, Washington, D. C., with whom Jack Greenberg and W. Haywood Burns, New York City, were on the brief, for appellant.

John G. Gill, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Daniel Rarris, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Justice, and FICKLING and KERN, Associate Judges.

HOOD, Chief Judge:

Appellant was convicted of violating the provision of D.C.Code 1967, § 22-1107 which forbids persons to congregate and assemble on a public street and crowd, obstruct, or incommode the free use of such street. We conclude that a reversal of the conviction is required by the recent decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in Williams v. District of Columbia, ___ U.S.App.D.C. ___, ___ F.2d ___ (decided...

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