# Nixon v. United States

> District of Columbia Court of Appeals · June 5, 1979 · 402 A.2d 816

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9640845

## Case

- **Full name:** Luther Lee NIXON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee
- **Court:** District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** June 5, 1979
- **Citations:** 402 A.2d 816; 1979 D.C. App. LEXIS 382
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Dissent by Kelly
- **Judges:** Kelly, Gallagher, Harris
- **Cited by:** 9 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

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## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- 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”

## Opinion text

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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