United States v. Lamont S. Carter, United States of America v. Jerome R. Patterson, United States of America v. Jerome R. Patterson

JUSTICE, District Judge.

I. INTRODUCTION

A. The Burglary

In the early morning hours of June 29, 1971, security personnel at the Troop Command supply area of the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington, D. C., discovered that the arms room of the facility had been forcibly entered. A window had been broken, a protective screen removed, and locks cut. A military police squad leader noticed two automobiles in a nearby parking lot, immediately before being notified of the break-in. He described one automobile as an intermediate sized, dark-colored, late 1960’s vehicle. In this automobile, he…