DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA v. SOPHIA

No. 6660-6662.

306 A.2d 652 (1973)

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. Joe SOPHIA, Appellee. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. Diane HOFMANN, Appellee. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellant, v. Dick BIRKINS, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 29, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leo N. Gorman, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., with whom C. Francis Murphy, Corp. Counsel, and Richard W. Barton, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Lois R. Goodman, Washington, D. C., for appellees.

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


REILLY, Chief Judge:

This is a consolidated appeal from identical orders of the Superior Court requiring expungement of arrest records of three different individuals. Each of them had been arrested on October 2, 1970, by policemen detailed to Georgetown on that day to restore public order in an area where a civil disturbance was in progress. They were charged with the offense of congregating with others on a public street and refusing to move on when ordered to do...

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