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U.S. v. SCOTT

No. 07-CO-871.

987 A.2d 1180 (2010)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Donte SCOTT, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 28, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jeffrey A. Taylor, United States Attorney at the time, with whom Roy W. McLeese III, Elizabeth Trosman, and Michael Humphreys, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellant.

O. Dean Sanderford, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Samia Fam, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GLICKMAN and FISHER, Associate Judges, and FARRELL, Senior Judge.

GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

The United States appeals from the suppression of evidence in its prosecution of Donte Scott for simple possession of marijuana and possession with intent to distribute cocaine. The police recovered the marijuana and the cocaine in separate searches after they arrested Scott for selling drugs in plain view of an undercover police officer. The government claims that the trial court erred in ruling that each seizure violated Scott's rights...

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