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UNITED STATES v. JACKSON

No. 80-587.

430 A.2d 1380 (1981)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Jacqueline J. JACKSON, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 20, 1981.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Harold Damelin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Gordon C. Rhea, and A. Carlos Correa, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Robert A. Philipson, Washington, D. C., appointed by the court, for appellee.

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

FERREN, Associate Judge:

This case presents a single question: whether the trial court abused its discretion in refusing to examine the prosecutor's "papering" notes before ordering the government to produce them pursuant to the Jencks Act, 18 U.S.C. § 3500 (1976). We conclude that because the court's voir dire was inconclusive as to whether the notes contained a police officer's "statement," id. § 3500(e), the trial court abused its discretion in...

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