Opinion

Brown v. United States

  • 349 A.2d 467
  • 1975 D.C. App. LEXIS 295
Court
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Filed
Dec 29, 1975
Status
Published
Author
Gallagher
On the bench
Gallagher, Nebeker and Yeagley, Associate Judges
Cited by
9 cases
Authority
More cited than 8.8%

pretrial suppression of identification evidence improper where based solely on finding that the evidence was “too weak”

How later courts described this case

  • pretrial suppression of identification evidence improper where based solely on finding that the evidence was “too weak”
  • error to suppress identification testimony on the ground that it was too weak

Written by the judges who cited it.

The opinion

GALLAGHER, Associate Judge

(concurring) :

I concur. There is not here the unusual situation presented in Crawley v. United States, D.C.App., 320 A.2d 309 , petition for rehearing en banc denied, D.C.App., 325 A.2d 608 (1974).

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