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WEST v. U.S.

No. 96-CO-1778.

710 A.2d 866 (1998)

James N. WEST, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 30, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Marc L. Resnick, appointed by the court, for appellant.

L. Jackson Thomas II, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Mary Lou Leary, United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and John R. Fisher, Elizabeth Trosman, and Jeffrey A. Beatrice, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before SCHWELB and FARRELL, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER, Senior Judge.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Following the denial of his pre-trial motion to suppress physical evidence, James N. West, Jr. entered a conditional plea of guilty of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute it, in violation of D.C.Code § 33-541(a)(1) (1993). On appeal, he contends that police officers who had secured a warrant to search his apartment for narcotics violated the applicable "knock and announce" statute, D.C.Code § 33-565(g), by prematurely...

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