Blackmon v. United States

TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was charged with one count of possession of marijuana, in violation of D.C.Code § 33-541(d) (1998). 1 He filed a pre-trial motion to suppress the marijuana which the police found in the pocket of his jacket. After an evidentiary hearing on the motion, which the court held contemporaneously with a non-jury trial, the court denied appellant’s motion and found him guilty as charged. Before this court appellant contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to suppress, arguing (1) that the police had no right to order his passenger out of the car, so…