United States v. Hayes

KERN, Associate Judge:

The Government appeals from an order entered by the trial court prior to trial suppressing as evidence four capsules allegedly containing heroin recovered by police officers from a trash pile in the corner of a fire-gutted room, formerly operated as a pool hall, located on 15th Street, Northeast.

At the hearing on appellee’s motion to suppress, there was evidence that two police officers on duty in their cruiser during the day saw appellee and another man enter a vacant pool hall which was a known hangout for drug users and the interior of which had recently been…