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WEST v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 4557, 4558.

249 A.2d 740 (1969)

John R. WEST, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Hercules JOHNSON and John R. West, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 28, 1969.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John J. Hurley, for appellants.

Albert W. Overby, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom David G. Bress, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker, Daniel J. Givelber and John F. Rudy, III, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before HOOD, Chief Judge, and KELLY and FICKLING, Associate Judges.

KELLY, Associate Judge:

These appeals pose the question of whether it was error to deny appellants' pretrial motion to suppress, which was renewed and again denied at trial, and to allow into evidence items taken from appellants at the time of arrest.

The arresting officer testified1 that on June 13, 1967, he set out on routine patrol of the downtown area of the city in an unmarked police car. Before leaving the precinct he had...

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