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COTTON v. UNITED STATES

No. 10600.

388 A.2d 865 (1978)

Sylvester I. COTTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 8, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

W. Gary Kohlman, Public Defender Service, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

Joel S. Perwin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and William D. Pease, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GALLAGHER and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges, and BRAMAN, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

GALLAGHER, Associate Judge:

After a jury trial, appellant was found guilty of armed robbery.1 He was sentenced to a term of imprisonment of not less than eighteen months nor more than twenty years. Appellant attacks his conviction on the grounds that the trial court erred (1) in refusing to impose some sanction for the police failure to preserve a photographic array used in a pretrial identification procedure, and (2) in failing to hold...

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