Legal Opinion
Hill v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 23, 1971No. 5649PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:
In this appeal from a jury conviction of petit larceny, 1 appellant claims that the identification procedure on which the Government’s case depended, “was so unnecessarily suggestive and conducive to irreparable mistaken identification that [appellant] was denied due process of law” and accordingly that it was error for the trial court to overrule his motion for judgment of acquittal.
The evidence reflected that on September 26, 1970, a cash register on the lunch counter in the Trailways Bus Terminal, at 12th Street and New York Avenue, N.W., was pilfered by four young…
2Cases cited7 opinions
- United States v. Benjamin IndiviglioCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1965
- Bobby Russell v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
- Jefferson Crawford v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1967
- Bunter v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1968
- United States v. Samuel M. WashingtonCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1970
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3Cited by21 opinions
- Payne v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1986
- Adams v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1973
- Smith v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1972
- In re W. E. P.District of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1974
- Anderson v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1974
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