CHILDRESS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 10704, 10757 and 11157.

381 A.2d 614 (1977)

Michael CHILDRESS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Ezekiel PEEBLES, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Alvin L. MARTIN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 15, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David P. Parker, Charlottesville, Va., appointed by this court, for appellant Childress.

Irwin A. Goldberg, Chevy Chase, Md., appointed by this court, for appellant Peebles, adopted the brief of appellant Childress, but did not argue.

Robert H. Haas, Baltimore, Md., appointed by this court, for appellant Martin.

Carol E. Bruce, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Charles H. Anderton, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEBEKER, YEAGLEY and FERREN, Associate Judges.


YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

At 11:15 on the morning of November 18, 1975, plainclothes officers Herman J. Keels and T. J. Jones of the Metropolitan Police observed appellants Michael Childress and Alvin Martin acting in what they considered a suspicious manner, looking into automobiles and apparently casing a bank in the vicinity of the 4500 block of Wisconsin Avenue, N.W. The officers had been assigned to that area because...

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