Legal Opinion
Clayborne Bynum v. United States
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided January 20, 1959No. 14403PublishedCited by 119 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
HASTIE, Circuit Judge.
This is an appeal from a conviction of robbery. D.C.Code § 22-2901 (1951). A principal issue is whether the court below erred in admitting into evidence certain fingerprints which had been obtained from the accused while he was detained pursuant to an allegedly illegal arrest. The circumstances here are such as to require us to examine the rationale and to judge the reach of authoritative decisions which, in other circumstances, have held evidence obtained through illegal arrest and detention to be inadmissible.
Appellant was arrested on an occasion when he had come…
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- Contee v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1954
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3Cited by119 opinions
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