JACOBS v. UNITED STATES

No. 10814.

374 A.2d 850 (1977)

Leo JACOBS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 28, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Wallace E. Shipp, Jr., Columbia, Md., appointed by the court, was on the brief for appellant.

Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Richard H. Saltsman, David S. Krakoff and Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellee.

Before KERN, YEAGLEY and MACK, Associate Judges.


MACK, Associate Judge:

Appellant, convicted of possession of a prohibited weapon (D.C. Code 1973, § 22-3214(a)), seeks reversal on the ground that the search which uncovered a blackjack violated his Fourth Amendment rights and that therefore his motion to suppress the weapon as evidence should have been granted.

I.

The arresting officer and appellant were the sole witnesses at the suppression hearing. Their testimony revealed that shortly after...

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