Lloyd A. Hall v. United States

ON REHEARING EN BANC

SPOTTSWOOD W. ROBINSON, III, Circuit Judge.

The question before us is whether evidence of appellant’s possession of narcotics, discovered on a search accompanying his arrest under the District of Columbia Narcotic Vagrancy Act,1 was admissible in a prosecution leading to his conviction under federal narcotic laws.2 The arrest and search antedated our holdings in Ricks v. District of Columbia (Ricks I)3 that three subsections of the District’s general vagrancy statute, and in Ricks v. United States (Ricks II)4 that two subsections of the Narcotic Vagrancy Act, including the…