MELENDEZ v. U.S.

No. 08-CF-244.

26 A.3d 234 (2011)

Carlos O. MELENDEZ, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 3, 2011.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas E. Heslep , Washington, DC, for appellant.

Katherine M. Kelly , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Ronald C. Machen, Jr. , United States Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III , and Elizabeth Trosman. , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, GLICKMAN, Associate Judge, and BELSON, Senior Judge.


WASHINGTON, Chief Judge:

Carlos Melendez appeals from his conviction for second-degree murder as the lesser-included offense of his charged crime, first-degree murder. Because we find none of his arguments to have merit, we affirm his conviction.

I.

On March 7, 2006, Carlos Melendez was charged with five counts: (1) kidnapping while armed (of Mayra Margot Gutierrez); (2) kidnapping (of Moises Cardoza); (3) carjacking while armed; (4) first-degree...

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