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MAYFIELD v. UNITED STATES

No. 5380.

276 A.2d 123 (1971)

Rufus Gray MAYFIELD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 15, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Rufus Gray Mayfield, pro se, and, at the request of the court Langdon G. Dowdey, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Jerome Wiener, 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.

Before PAIR, REILLY and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.

REILLY, Associate Judge:

Appellant's conviction of unlawful possession of narcotics1 is based entirely on a police officer's discovery in appellant's car of an envelope containing a small quantity of marijuana. The only question presented by this appeal is whether the envelope and its contents should have been received as evidence in the face of a defense contention that these items were obtained by a search and seizure contravening fourth...

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