HILL v. UNITED STATES

No. 5649.

280 A.2d 925 (1971)

Johnny Alonzo HILL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 23, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Everett J. Santos, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Leonard W. Belter, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee. Richard L. Cys, Asst. U. S. Atty., also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before PAIR, REILLY and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.


YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

In this appeal from a jury conviction of petit larceny,1 appellant claims that the identification procedure on which the Government's case depended, "was so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification that [appellant] was denied due process of law" and accordingly that it was error for the trial court to overrule his motion for judgment...

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