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ALVAREZ v. U.S.

No. 88-698.

576 A.2d 713 (1990)

Jorge Alberto ALVAREZ, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 15, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John E. Williams, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., with whom John R. Fisher and Richard L. Edwards, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and REILLY, Senior Judge.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Alvarez appeals from his conviction of unlawful possession of a prohibited weapon, a switchblade knife, in violation of D.C. Code § 22-3214(a) (1989). He contends that the trial judge committed reversible error in denying his pretrial motion to suppress tangible evidence, that evidence consisting of the knife which was recovered from his pocket during a search incident to his arrest. The arrest was predicated on Alvarez' possession of...

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