Lamont A. Biles v. United States

BECKWITH, Associate Judge:

On January 8, 2011, and then again on February 4, 2011, police arrested appellant Lamont Biles for peddling counterfeit DVDs at the Florida Avenue flea market in northeast Washington, D.C. Mr. Biles was later convicted, in a separate bench trial for each incident, of attempted deceptive labeling in violation of D.C.Code § 22-3214.01(d)(1) (2001).

*1015On appeal from his convictions, Mr. Biles contends that the government’s mid-trial disclosure in the first case of facts indicating that police had illegally searched Mr. Biles’s backpack and his stash of DVDs kept him from…