Legal Opinion

Waldron v. United States

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided March 22, 1977No. 10147PublishedCited by 21 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

On appeal from a conviction of possession of a dangerous drug, 1 appellant challenges his arrest, search, and the seizure of the contraband on the ground that the reliability of the informant was not sufficiently shown generally, or specifically as to this case, and that he was denied rightful discovery of the chemist’s rough notes made during the testing of the seized drug. We hold that the dual aspects of the applicable reliability test of Aguilar v. Texas, 378 U.S. 108, 84 S.Ct. 1509, 12 L.Ed. 723 (1964), were satisfied and that pretrial disclosure of the working…

2Cases cited5 opinions

  1. Aguilar v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1964
  2. Campbell v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1972
  3. Lawson v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1976
  4. Mitchell v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1977
  5. Rodney Wolford v. United States of America, William Robert Morgan v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the Tenth Circuit · 1968

3Cited by21 opinions

  1. Warren v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1981
  2. Clifford v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1987
  3. Goldston v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1989
  4. Diamen v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1999
  5. Davis v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1993

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