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HEMSLEY v. UNITED STATES

No. 9313.

353 A.2d 14 (1976)

Michael Edward HEMSLEY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 27, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Edward McKenna, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Stuart M. Gerson, Richard H. Saltsman and John L. Kern, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., for appellee.

Before KERN, YEAGLEY and MACK, Associate Judges.

YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted below of carrying an unlicensed pistol in violation of D.C.Code 1973, § 22-3204. He contends on appeal that the police officers who seized the pistol were acting outside their authority at the time they made a plain-view observation of the weapon and that consequently the court below should have granted his motion to suppress. He also contends that he was denied effective assistance of counsel by the failure of...

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