COWAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 7068.

331 A.2d 323 (1975)

Lawrence A. COWAN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 20, 1975.

Rehearing Denied February 20, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Eugene Gressman, Washington, D.C., appointed by the court, with whom Joel M. Birken, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Garey G. Stark, Asst. U.S. Atty. with whom Harold H. Titus, Jr., U.S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, John A. Terry and John F. Finnegan, Jr., Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, FICKLING and PAIR, Associate Judges.


KELLY, Associate Judge:

The allegations of error raised on this appeal from a conviction of bribery (D.C. Code 1973, § 22-701) concern the admission at trial of impeachment evidence obtained through what the trial court considered to be an illegal search and seizure and from certain of appellant's statements to an employee of the District of Columbia Bail Agency. We affirm.

On a day in May of 1972 appellant was arrested by Officer Terry A. Womack for...

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