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UNITED STATES v. HOLMES

No. 8172.

343 A.2d 272 (1975)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Willie J. HOLMES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 14, 1975.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Justin D. Simon, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and C. Madison Brewer, Asst. U. S. Attys. were on the brief, for appellant.

Linda Huber, Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before KELLY, KERN and GALLAGHER, Associate Judges.

KELLY, Associate Judge:

The government appeals here from a pretrial order granting the accused in a first degree murder case discovery of the names and addresses of persons the government intends to call as witnesses at trial.1 Its position before the trial court, and here, is that a trial judge is without authority to order pretrial disclosure of the identity of any government witness in any criminal case. We disagree and affirm.

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