U.S. v. BROOKS

No. 91-3235.

966 F.2d 1500 (1992)

UNITED STATES of America, Appellee, v. Xavier BROOKS, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided June 19, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mary E. Davis, with whom Christopher M. Davis (appointed by the Court) was on the brief, for appellant.

G. Bradley Weinsheimer, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., John R. Fisher, Thomas C. Black, and Erik P. Christian, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before: MIKVA, Chief Judge, SILBERMAN and WILLIAMS, Circuit Judges.


Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.

STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:

A jury found Xavier Brooks guilty of various drug charges in October 1990.1 About six weeks after that trial, police officer Christie Hoyle, the government's chief witness, was fatally shot in the apartment of a fellow officer, David Rowland, evidently with her own service revolver. Later (and apparently without knowledge of the shooting...

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