Legal Opinion
Cauthen v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 7, 1991No. 89-1216PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
FARRELL, Associate Judge:
On March 15, 1989, at approximately 2:00 a.m., the police received a call from an unknown citizen stating that three or four individuals were selling drugs at the corner of Fourteenth and Buchanan Streets, N.W. No additional description of the individuals was given. Within a period of time unclear in the record but which the government *1022concedes to be fifteen to twenty minutes, police officers arrived at the intersection in marked vehicles and saw three to five persons standing on the northwest corner. The group dispersed on sighting the police, as two men “took off…
2Cases cited19 opinions
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3Cited by33 opinions
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