HICKS v. U.S.

No. 96-CF-956.

730 A.2d 657 (1999)

Willie L. HICKS, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 3, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Severina B. Rivera, Washington, DC, for appellant.

L. Jackson Thomas II, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher, Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., and Roger L. Kemp, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FARRELL and RUIZ, Associate Judges, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.


FARRELL, Associate Judge:

Found guilty by a jury of two counts of armed robbery and related weapons offenses, appellant contends that a show-up identification of him by one of the victims and physical evidence (chiefly a sawed-off shotgun) seized from the car in which he was riding should have been suppressed as the fruits of a Fourth Amendment violation. Although we conclude that the search of the car was unlawful because done without probable cause, we agree with...

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