Legal Opinion

Wiggins v. United States

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided April 24, 1978No. 11561PublishedCited by 16 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

YEAGLEY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted by a jury on August 16,1976, of one count of robbery, in violation of D.C.Code 1973, § 22-2901. On October 15,1976, the court suspended imposition of sentence and placed appellant on three years’ probation under 18 U.S.C. § 5010(a) (1970).

The case grew out of the following fact situation. On March 12,1976, the complainant was accosted as he was returning to his car after leaving a branch of the National Bank of Washington at 7601 Georgia Avenue, N.W. The assailant attempted to take from the complainant a brown paper bag in which the latter had…

2Cases cited16 opinions

  1. Brady v. MarylandSupreme Court of the United States · 1963
  2. Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  3. United States v. NataleCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1975
  4. Milton M. Levin v. Nicholas Deb. Katzenbach, Attorney General of the United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1966
  5. United States v. Joseph RuggieroCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1973

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3Cited by16 opinions

  1. Johnson v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1979
  2. Middleton v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1979
  3. Lewis v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1979
  4. Lewis v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
  5. ALONZO R. VAUGHN and CARL S. MORTON v. UNITED STATESDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 2014

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