UNITED STATES v. ROBINSON

Nos. 24809-24811.

475 F.2d 376 (1973)

UNITED STATES of America v. Leonard T. ROBINSON, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. James E. McCAFFITY, Appellant. UNITED STATES of America v. Louis JOHNSON, Appellant.

United States Court of Appeals, District of Columbia Circuit.

Decided March 7, 1973.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Louis P. Robbins, Washington, D. C., with whom Nathan H. Wasser, Washington, D. C. (both appointed by this Court) was on the brief, for appellant.

Julius A. Johnson, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Thomas A. Flannery, U. S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, and John A. Terry and William H. Collins, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BAZELON, Chief Judge, and LEVENTHAL and ROBINSON, Circuit Judges.


LEVENTHAL, Circuit Judge:

Appellants were found guilty of second-degree murder, submitted under a revised indictment as a lesser included offense to a felony-murder charge, and of armed robbery.1 This appeal, from judgments sentencing each appellant to concurrent terms of six to twenty years' imprisonment, raises questions as to (1) the trial judge's refusal to permit the veniremen's attitudes toward self-defense to be explored on voir...

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