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PORTER v. U.S.

No. 09-CO-425.

37 A.3d 251 (2012)

Earl PORTER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Argued March 24, 2011.

Reargued November 9, 2011.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan W. Anderson , Public Defender Service, with whom Jaclyn S. Frankfurt and James Klein , Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Michael J. Friedman (counsel for argument on March 24, 2011) and David B. Goodhand , (counsel for argument on November 9, 2011), Assistant United States Attorneys, with whom Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III , Elizabeth Trosman and Margaret J. Chriss , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the briefs, for appellee.

Before THOMPSON and OBERLY, Associate Judges, and NEWMAN, Senior Judge.

THOMPSON, Associate Judge:

Appellant Earl Porter appeals from the trial court's denial of his D.C.Code § 23-110 motion, in which he sought relief on the ground that he received ineffective assistance from his trial counsel. The motion argued that Porter's trial counsel was ineffective in failing to seek suppression of evidence recovered from the scene of an alleged robbery. The trial court assumed that appellant's trial counsel was remiss in that regard and that...

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