WHITFIELD v. U.S.

No. 11-CF-1451.

99 A.3d 650 (2014)

Roosevelt WHITFIELD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 18, 2014.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christine A. Monta , Public Defender Service, with whom James W. Klein and Alice Wang , Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Stephen Rickard , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney, and Elizabeth Trosman , Chrisellen R. Kolb , Jeff T. Cook , and Angela G. Schmidt , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GLICKMAN and BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judges, and NEBEKER, Senior Judge.


BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judge:

Appellant Roosevelt Whitfield, an off-duty bank security guard and member of the United States Air Force at the time of his arrest,1 was stopped by the police after the officers observed that the lower portion of the Texas license plate located on his vehicle was obstructed by the license plate frame, thereby concealing the state nickname — "Lone Star...

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