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UNITED STATES v. AKERS

No. 10451.

374 A.2d 874 (1977)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. William AKERS, Sr., and William Akers, Jr., Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 2, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Larry C. Willey, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U.S. Atty., John A. Terry, Theodore A. Shmanda and Albert H. Turkus, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Albert W. Overby, Washington, D.C., for appellee, William Akers, Sr.

Steffen Graae, Washington, D.C., for appellee, William Akers, Jr.

Dorothy Sellers, Washington, D.C., for amicus curiae, American Civil Liberties Union Fund of the National Capital Area.

Before FICKLING, KERN and HARRIS, Associate Judges.

KERN, Associate Judge:

Appellees are charged with assault on three police officers in violation of D.C.Code 1973, § 22-505(a). The government appeals from a pretrial order directing the suppression of the officers' testimony at trial unless the prosecution turns over to appellees certain documents contained in the "personnel files" of the three officers.

The genesis of this appeal was appellees' pretrial motion for discovery and inspection of ...

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