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GODFREY v. UNITED STATES

No. 12964.

408 A.2d 1244 (1979)

Larry B. GODFREY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert E. Clem, Washington, D. C., appointed by the court, was on brief for appellant.

Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time the brief was filed, and John A. Terry, Robert I. Richter and E. Anne McKinsey, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on brief for appellee.

Before KELLY, NEBEKER and HARRIS, Associate Judges.

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

The appellant appeals from convictions of second-degree burglary and grand larceny, D.C.Code 1973, §§ 22-1801(b), -2201. He urges us to reverse on the ground that the proceeds of his theft were unconstitutionally seized. He contends that the police unreasonably invaded his sphere of privacy by feeling a trash bag on a hotel houseman's cart, where he had placed the stolen property. Principally on the basis of Rakas v. Illinois...

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