Legal Opinion
Dewitt Easter v. District of Columbia
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided March 31, 1966No. 19365_1PublishedCited by 72 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FAHY, Circuit Judge, with whom BAZELON, Chief Judge, and WRIGHT and LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judges, join and with whom McGOWAN, Circuit Judge,
joins in the result and in Parts I and III of the opinion;
In the Court of General Sessions of the District of Columbia, at a trial by a judge without a jury, appellant DeWitt Easter was found guilty of having been “drunk and intoxicated” on a stated date in a street in Washington, in violation of our Code provision reading:
No person shall * * * be drunk or intoxicated in any street, alley, park, or parking; * * *
D.C. Code § 25-128(a).1 He was given a…
2Cases cited12 opinions
- Morissette v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1952
- Robinson v. CaliforniaSupreme Court of the United States · 1962
- Russell E. Carter v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1957
- Louis R. Hutcherson v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1965
- Joe B. Driver v. Arthur Hinnant, Superintendent Halifax County Prison Unit of the North Carolina State Prison DepartmentCourt of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit · 1966
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3Cited by72 opinions
- Powell v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1968
- Charles C. Rouse v. Dale C. Cameron, Superintendent, Saint Elizabeths HospitalCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1967
- United States of America Ex Rel. Roy Schuster, Relator-Appellant v. Ross E. Herold, M.D., Director of Dannemora State Hospital, Dannemora, New YorkCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1969
- United States v. Raymond MooreCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1973
- Bettye Delores Pitts, Gwendolyn A. Samuels v. Richard ThornburghCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1989
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