Angarano v. United States

The proceeding addressed by the court’s orders and statement, to which this dissent is filed, has two facets:(1) the Public Defender Service asks this court to go en banc pursuant to our Rule 40(c)(1) in order to resolve a conflict between decisions of two hearing divisions of this court, and also alleges that this court’s decision in Angarano v. United States, D.C.App., 312 A.2d 295 (1973), adopts an analysis contrary “to the fundamental premises of the adversary system and is not in accord with existing precedent”; and(2) the District of Columbia Bar and the Bar Association of the District…