Legal Opinion
United States v. Gwendolyn E. Johnson
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided May 11, 1973No. 71-1715PublishedCited by 56 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
McGOWAN, Circuit Judge:
The issue raised by the Government’s appeal in this prosecution for federal narcotics offenses, 26 U.S.C. § 4704(a) and 21 U.S.C. § 174, is the correctness of the trial court’s pretrial suppression *978of evidence of narcotics found in appellee’s purse. We hold that the order granting appellee’s motion to suppress was in error; and we reverse.
I
On or about January 5, 1971, members of the Narcotics Branch of the Metropolitan Police Department obtained a warrant authorizing a search for narcotics of the entire apartment of one James L. Stewart, subsequently indicted as a…
2Cases cited9 opinions
- Bailey v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1967
- Will Parks Clay and Mattie Bell Anderson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit · 1957
- James R. Walker v. United States of America, Ethel E. Woody v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1964
- United States v. FestaDistrict Court, D. Massachusetts · 1960
- United States v. Reginald T. BrownCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
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3Cited by56 opinions
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- Owens ex rel. Owens v. LottCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 2004
- Commonwealth v. SmithMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1976
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