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COLEMAN v. U.S.

No. 97-CM-634.

728 A.2d 1230 (1999)

Ronald L. COLEMAN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 13, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick J. Norman, appointed by the court, for appellant.

Chrisellen R. Kolb, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher, Mary-Patrice Brown, and John D. Crabb, Jr., Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before TERRY and FARRELL, Associate Judges, and KING, Senior Judge.

TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was charged with possession of marijuana1 and possession of drug paraphernalia.2 Before trial he moved to suppress certain evidence that was seized during a search of his home. Appellant claimed that despite a concededly valid search warrant, the officers violated the Fourth Amendment and applicable knock-and-announce statutes when they entered his house by means of a ruse...

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