Goldston v. United States

GALLAGHER, Senior Judge:

Appellant was arrested and searched on a Northwest street comer, resulting in the police recovering six plastic bags of cocaine from his jacket. The trial court denied appellant’s pretrial motion to suppress the drugs, whereupon appellant entered a conditional plea of guilty1 to one count of possession of cocaine in violation of D.C. Code § 33-541(d) (1988 Repl.). Appellant now challenges the trial court’s ruling, arguing that the police lacked probable cause to arrest him. We disagree and affirm.

I

On the evening of October 28, 1986, a police officer received a…