TAYLOR v. UNITED STATES

No. 5315.

280 A.2d 79 (1971)

Greenlee Ricado TAYLOR, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 6, 1971.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael M. Kearney, appointed by this court, for appellant.

Guy H. Cunningham, III, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty., and John A. Terry, Asst. U. S. Atty., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before PAIR, REILLY and YEAGLEY, Associate Judges.


REILLY, Associate Judge:

Appellant, one of two young men arrested by a special police officer at a Dart Drug Store and convicted after a jury trial of attempted petit larceny, urges this court to reverse the conviction on the ground that an improper ruling of the trial court intimidated him from taking the stand in his own defense. According to the testimony of the special officer, the only prosecution witness, he had observed...

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