SMITH v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 80-300.

436 A.2d 53 (1981)

Thomas G. SMITH, et al., Appellants, v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 25, 1981.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark H. Kaufman and Robert L. Pettit, Washington, D.C., for appellants.

Philip T. Van Zile, III, Asst. Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., with whom Judith W. Rogers, Corp. Counsel, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KERN and NEBEKER, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER, Associate Judge, Retired.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

These cases consolidated for both trial and appeal, challenge the constitutionality of a police regulation prohibiting the possession of a police radar detector in a motor vehicle.1 In some cases, the device was mounted for use; in others, a police officer discovered the unused device on the floor of the car. Appellants' consolidated motion to dismiss the informations against them on constitutional grounds was...

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