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RICHARDSON v. UNITED STATES

No. 85-1237.

520 A.2d 692 (1987)

James J. RICHARDSON, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 28, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

George Denney, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Robert MacNair Morgan, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell and Judith Hetherton, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before PRYOR, Chief Judge, and BELSON and TERRY, Associate Judges.

BELSON, Associate Judge:

Richardson was convicted of possession of dilaudid, a controlled substance, D.C. Code § 33-541(d) (1986 Supp.). On appeal, he argues that the trial court erred in denying his motion to supress evidence. He first asserts that the United States Park Police officers who arrested him lacked the authority to do so because the arrest took place outside of any federal park or reservation, and that the evidence they seized should therefore be...

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