WILLIAMS v. U.S.

No. 88-1549.

576 A.2d 700 (1990)

Craig A. WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 15, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Allen W. Levy, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellant.

James A. Meade, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and N. Paul Patterson and John R. Fisher, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and NEWMAN and BELSON, Associate Judges.


ROGERS, Chief Judge:

Appellant appeals his conviction of possession of an unregistered firearm, ammunition and drug paraphernalia, D.C.Code §§ 6-2311(a), -2361(3) (1989 Repl.) and 33-603(a) (1988 Repl.), on the ground that the physical evidence should have been suppressed since it was discovered during a search that violated the District of Columbia's "knock and announce" statute, D.C. Code § 33-565(g) (1988 Repl.). The trial judge found that exigent...

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