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UNITED STATES v. BROWN

No. 6129.

294 A.2d 499 (1972)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Marsaung BROWN, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 25, 1972.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard L. Cys, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and William J. Hardy, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellant.

Joan M. McIntyre, appointed by this court, for appellee.

Before REILLY, Chief Judge, and GALLAGHER and PAIR, Associate Judges.

REILLY, Chief Judge:

In this case, the Government appeals from an order granting a motion to suppress the contents of a handbag taken from a young woman — appellee here — and examined by a police officer at a precinct station where she was being held on a charge of failing or refusing to pay a taxicab fare.1 The officer found certain narcotic instruments in the bag. This discovery was the basis of an information subsequently...

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