GOLDSTON v. U.S.

No. 87-591.

562 A.2d 96 (1989)

Jamie E. GOLDSTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 6, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jensen E. Barber, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, was on the brief, for appellant.

Timothy J. Reardon, III, Principal Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Michael W. Farrell, Asst. U.S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, Elizabeth Trosman, Eva Polin, and Patricia A. Riley, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN and BELSON, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER, Senior Judge.


GALLAGHER, Senior Judge:

Appellant was arrested and searched on a Northwest street corner, resulting in the police recovering six plastic bags of cocaine from his jacket. The trial court denied appellant's pretrial motion to suppress the drugs, whereupon appellant entered a conditional plea of guilty1 to one count of possession of cocaine in violation of D.C. Code § 33-541(d) (1988 Repl.). Appellant now challenges the trial court...

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