WALDRON v. UNITED STATES

No. 10147.

370 A.2d 1372 (1977)

Alphonso WALDRON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 22, 1977.

Rehearing en Banc Denied May 6, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David J. Schmit, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Robert M. McNamara, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, William D. Pease, Lillian A. McEwen, and Richard H. Saltsman, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, GALLAGHER and NEBEKER, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

On appeal from a conviction of possession of a dangerous drug,1 appellant challenges his arrest, search, and the seizure of the contraband on the ground that the reliability of the informant was not sufficiently shown generally, or specifically as to this case, and that he was denied rightful discovery of the chemist's rough notes made during the testing of the seized drug. We hold that the dual aspects of the...

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