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OLIVER v. U.S.

No. 92-CF-61.

656 A.2d 1159 (1995)

Lisa OLIVER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 13, 1995.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jo-Ann Wallace, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Samia Fam, Eduardo Juarez, and Stephanie Garriga, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Ann K.H. Simon, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom J. Ramsey Johnson, U.S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, and John R. Fisher, Roger W. Burke, Jr., and Clendon H. Lee, Jr., Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN and STEADMAN, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER, Senior Judge.

Opinion for the court by Associate Judge STEADMAN.

Dissenting opinion by Associate Judge FERREN at p. 1173.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

Appellant challenges the warrantless police entry into her home which resulted in the retrieval of a kidnapped baby. We conclude, as reflected in the trial court's ruling, that the entry and seizure of the baby were justified by emergency circumstances and hence lawful under the Fourth Amendment. The identification...

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