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U.S. v. WATSON

No. 97-CO-7.

697 A.2d 36 (1997)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Leonard M. WATSON, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 26, 1997.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adam L. Rosman, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and John R. Fisher, Roy W. McLeese, III, and Lisa A. Hertzer, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellant.

Andrew J.J. Delehanty, Washington, DC, for appellee.

Before SCHWELB, FARRELL, and RUIZ, Associate Judges.

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

The government appeals from an order suppressing as evidence a gun seized from the trunk of a parked car that Leonard Watson had been driving. D.C.Code § 23-104(a)(1) (1996). The police searched the trunk after (1) seeing Watson appear to smoke a marijuana joint and smelling burnt marijuana as they approached his parked car; (2) finding a smoked marijuana cigarette in the ashtray of the car; and (3) finding six ziploc bags of heroin...

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