GREEN v. UNITED STATES

No. 10366.

363 A.2d 979 (1976)

Linwood R. GREEN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 30, 1976.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Christopher G. Hoge, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Earl J. Silbert, U.S. Atty., John A. Terry, Albert H. Turkus, and Larry C. Willey, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., for appellee.

Before NEBEKER and HARRIS, Associate Judges, and PAIR, Associate Judge, Retired.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

This appeal challenges the validity of a sentence imposed after the trial court misspoke itself in imposing sentence a few minutes earlier. Appellant entered a guilty plea to one count of manslaughter as a lesser-included offense of second-degree murder for which he had been indicted.1 Within an hour after imposing a sentence of 3 to 6 years, and while appellant was still in the courthouse, the trial court judge...

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