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BASSIL v. U.S.

No. 13-CF-1133.

147 A.3d 303 (2016)

Dominique BASSIL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided: October 6, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jaclyn S. Frankfurt , Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Christine A. Monta , Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

L. Jackson Thomas , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Elizabeth Trosman , Suzanne Grealy Curt , and Michelle D. Jackson , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before Washington, Chief Judge; Glickman, Associate Judge; and Belson, Senior Judge.

Shortly after 2 a.m. on August 13, 2011, Dominique Bassil fatally stabbed her boyfriend, Vance Harris, in the kitchen of their apartment. There were no other witnesses to the encounter. Although Bassil told police and testified at her trial that she acted in self-defense, the jury convicted her of murder in the second...

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