Court Opinion

ID: 9737144
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-26 19:17:10.524212+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:23:56.718313
License: Public Domain

STEADMAN, Associate Judge,
concurring:
I harbor some doubt whether the Dud-dles test can be applied on the facts here in light of our en banc holding in In re F. G., 576 A.2d 724, 726 (D.C.1990) (en banc) (“Duddles expressly premised its test on the availability to the defendant of evidence about the government’s actions”). However, I agree with the majority that in any event, the evidence at trial clearly established that there was probable cause for the arrest and therefore to require a remand for an evidentiary hearing would be “fruitless.”