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CAMPBELL v. UNITED STATES

No. 5359.

273 A.2d 252 (1971)

Charles Edward CAMPBELL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 3, 1971.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Sol Rosen, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

John E. Rogers, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Edwin K. Hall, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, FICKLING and REILLY, Associate Judges.

FICKLING, Associate Judge:

We reverse appellant's convictions for petit larceny, destruction of property, and attempted burglary II. Since there was no probable cause to arrest, the seizure of a television set during that arrest was illegal and therefore it could not have been properly admitted into evidence.1

About 4 o'clock in the afternoon, while routinely patrolling a neighborhood in an unmarked car, two police officers operating...

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