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UNITED STATES v. COVINGTON

No. 12069.

385 A.2d 164 (1978)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Katherlean COVINGTON and Joseph W. Bailey, Appellees.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 23, 1978.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol E. Bruce, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Anthony T. Podesta, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellant.

Edward R. McKenna, Washington, D. C., for appellee Covington.

William R. Herman, Public Defender Service, Washington, D. C., for appellee Bailey.

Before KERN, GALLAGHER and MACK, Associate Judges.

Opinion for the court by GALLAGHER, Associate Judge.

GALLAGHER, Associate Judge:

On September 1, 1976, Detective Peter Pressley and other officers from the Seventh District Vice Unit of the Metropolitan Police Department went to Apartment 1-A at 122 Irvington Street, Southwest, to execute a search warrant, the validity of which is not under attack here.

The warrant authorized a search of the premises for illegal drugs. One of the officers knocked on...

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