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WATERS v. UNITED STATES

No. 6280.

311 A.2d 835 (1973)

Frederick Lee WATERS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 3, 1973.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John W. Sansing, Washington, D. C., court appointed, for appellant.

Joseph F. McSorley, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, John J. Mulrooney and William E. Reukauf, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

REILLY, Chief Judge:

This is an appeal by an 18-year-old high school student from a conviction for unlawful possession of narcotics in violation of D.C.Code 1973, § 33-402. Prior to trial, appellant had moved to suppress as evidence an envelope containing tinfoil packets of heroin, which had been snatched from his hand on the grounds of Coolidge High School by a police officer assigned to duty at the school. The only question on appeal is whether the denial of...

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