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$4,586.00 IN U. S. CURRENCY v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 5109.

268 A.2d 264 (1970)

$4,586.00 IN UNITED STATES CURRENCY (George Harris), One Allen Wales Adding Machine, Serial No. 9E 112346 (George Louis Harris and George D. Mantzourais), Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 28, 1970.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth D. Wood, Washington, D. C., for appellants.

Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, for appellee. Charles T. Duncan, Corp. Counsel, Hubert B. Pair, Principal Asst. Corp. Counsel, Richard W. Barton and David P. Sutton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, on the brief.

Before KELLY, FICKLING and KERN, Associate Judges.

KELLY, Associate Judge:

This appeal is from a judgment of condemnation and forfeiture of certain property seized from appellants' possession as a result of the execution of a search warrant. We find merit with appellants' contention that the affidavit supporting the search warrant did not display the requisite probable cause and order the judgment reversed.

The affidavit opened with the statement that in July 1968, "information was developed by members of...

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