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BYRNE v. U.S.

Nos. 89-243, 89-244.

578 A.2d 700 (1990)

Hugh G. BYRNE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Katherine A. THOMPSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 24, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Goldstone, appointed by this court, for appellant.

Margaret A. Flaherty, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher and Mark J. Ehlers, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

BELSON, Associate Judge:

The issue in this case is whether a foreign nation's embassy in the United States is public property from which a person may not be ejected without proof of an additional specific factor that establishes the person's lack of a legal right to stay there. We hold that it is not.

Appellants, Hugh Byrne and Katherine Thompson, and four other individuals entered the Embassy of El Salvador and proceeded to the ambassador's office. Although...

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