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324 F.2d 442

Docket No. 17824.

Pea v. United States

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals

Argued Sept. 24, 1963.

Decided Oct. 10, 1963.

Petition for Rehearing Denied Nov. 5, 1963.

District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals · decided 1963-10-10

Cited by 13 later decisions — most recently November 1979

9 federal appellate · 4 state decisions

2 counsel of record

Relies on Hawkins v. United States

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Opinion by (per_curiam) · Decided 1963-10-10

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¶1Mr. Henry Lincoln Johnson, Jr., Washington, D. C. (appointed by the District Court), for appellant.

¶2Mr. Jerome Nelson, Atty., Dept, of Justice, with whom Mr. David C. Acheson, U. S. Atty., Frank Q. Nebeker and Joseph A. Lowther, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

¶3Before Edgerton, Senior Circuit Judge, and Danaher and McGowan, Circuit J udges.

¶4PER CURIAM.

¶5The defendant appeals from a conviction of second degree murder and assault with a dangerous weapon. A detective questioned him and got a confession while he was under arrest and lying wounded in a hospital. In keeping with the spirit of Rule 5(b), F.R.Crim.P., we might have expected that the detective would have warned him of his right to remain silent. The record does not show whether the detective did so. It does not show that either the prosecution or the defense “sought to ventilate the is*443sue.” In these circumstances we cannot reverse. Hawkins v. United States, 109 U.S.App.D.C. 338, 341-342, 288 F.2d 122, 125-126 (1960) (concurring opinion).

¶6Affirmed.

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