UNITED STATES v. BRADFORD

Nos. 8093, 8245.

344 A.2d 208 (1975)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Denise BRADFORD, Appellee. UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Charles L. PENDER, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 26, 1975.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William D. Pease, Asst. U. S. Atty., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Raymond Banoun and John C. Lenahan, Asst. U. S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellant.

W. Gary Kohlman, Washington, D. C., for appellee Bradford.

Joel M. Finkelstein, Washington, D. C., for appellee Pender.

Before REILLY, Chief Judge and KELLY and GALLAGHER, Associate Judges.


KELLY, Associate Judge:

These consolidated criminal appeals present the issue whether the government may charge a defendant with both voluntary and involuntary manslaughter in a single count of an indictment.1 The government, as the appellant, argues that manslaughter is a unitary offense which can be committed by alternate means, either voluntarily or involuntarily, and that the proscription...

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