BRYANT v. U.S.

No. 90-988.

599 A.2d 1107 (1991)

Jacqua M. BRYANT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 20, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James L. Kelley, appointed by this court, for appellant.

William R. Cowden, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher and Thomas C. Black, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and SCHWELB and FARRELL, Associate Judges.


FARRELL, Associate Judge:

A jury found appellant guilty of distributing cocaine. D.C.Code § 33-541(a)(1) (1988). On appeal he contends that the trial court erred in not suppressing evidence of a showup identification made outside his rooming house immediately after police entered the house without a warrant and seized him in a common hallway. The government concedes that exigent circumstances did not justify the warrantless entry and seizure but maintains that...

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