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IN THE UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF MARYLAND UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. JAMES DINKINS, ET AL. * * * Criminal No. JFM-06-0309 * * ***** MEMORANDUM

Darron Goods has filed a motion to suppress wiretap evidence. A non-evidentiary hearing on the motion was held on March 24, 2008. At the conclusion of the hearing, I expressed the tentative view that Goods' motion should be granted.1 By a letter dated April 2, 2008, the Government submitted several additional authorities that had not been cited prior to or during the hearing and requested that I issue a written order setting forth my final ruling and the reasons for the ruling. I adhere to the views I previously expressed, and I will grant Goods' motion.

Many excellent writers, including some law clerks and former law clerks, take the position that an " 's " must be added to a name ending in "s" when using the possessive form. Strunk and White so command. William Strunk, Jr. & E. B. White, The Elements of Style 1 (3d ed. 1979). Others never add an " 's ". There is also authority permitting what might be called a hybrid approach: adding an " 's " when the "s" in the possessor's name sounds like an "s" but omitting the "s" where (as here) the sound of the "s" in the possessor's name is "z." The Chicago Manual of Style

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