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SHEFFIELD v. UNITED STATES

No. 12836.

397 A.2d 963 (1979)

Samuel L. SHEFFIELD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 1, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew L. Lipps, Public Defender Service, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

John H. Korns, II, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Oscar Altshuler, Michael W. Farrell and Richard H. Saltsman, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KELLY and KERN, Associate Judges.

NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

Convicted by a jury of armed kidnapping, armed robbery, and extortion, appellant seeks reversal of his conviction, contending that the trial court erred: (1) in denying his motion to suppress certain pretrial photo identifications; and (2) in failing to sua sponte impose sanctions where the police failed to preserve photographic evidence. We affirm.1

On the evening of November 3, 1976, while Kirk King...

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