United States v. Boswell

KELLY, Associate Judge:

The United States appeals, pursuant to D.C.Code 1973, § 23-104(a) (l),1 from a ruling granting appellee’s pretrial motion to suppress evidence allegedly obtained by an unconstitutional search and seizure. The factual predicate for the ruling is that early on Christmas afternoon of 1973, Metropolitan Police Detective Anthony H. Johnson observed appellee Raymond Boswell walking rapidly down a city block in the vicinity of 25th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Johnson’s attention was attracted to Boswell because he was carrying a large object wrapped in a blue blanket…