United States v. Childs

The government appeals in a proper and timely manner pursuant to D.C. Code 1973, § 23-104(a)(l) the trial court’s grant of appellees’ motion to suppress statements and physical evidence which appellees contended were the fruit of an unlawful arrest.

On October 7,1976, at approximately 9:40 p.m. officers Steven Beach and Bernardo Garcia drove their scout car into one end of an alley behind the 3800 block of Kansas Avenue, N. W., and there observed two men, appellees, standing at the alley’s other end at a distance of approximately 75-100 feet. The alley was illuminated by standard street…