Opinion

Nixon v. United States

  • 402 A.2d 816
  • 1979 D.C. App. LEXIS 382
Court
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Filed
Jun 5, 1979
Status
Published
Author
Kelly
On the bench
Kelly, Gallagher, Harris
Cited by
9 cases
Authority
More cited than 7.3%

noting that “we are to be guided by reasonableness and are not to be entangled in attempts to microscopically align the facts of the case at bar with those of prior cases having inevitably differing factual circumstances”

How later courts described this case

  • noting that “we are to be guided by reasonableness and are not to be entangled in attempts to microscopically align the facts of the case at bar with those of prior cases having inevitably differing factual circumstances”

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

KELLY, Associate Judge,

dissenting:

In my judgment appellant’s arrest in this case was without probable cause. See Campbell v. United States, D.C.App., 273 A.2d 252 (1971); Daugherty v. United States, D.C.App., 272 A.2d 675 (1971). I would reverse the conviction.

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