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BAXTER v. UNITED STATES

No. 8849.

352 A.2d 383 (1976)

Charles E. BAXTER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 17, 1976.

Rehearing and Rehearing en Banc Denied April 15, 1976.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James A. Bensfield, Somerville, Mass., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Henry A. Gill, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., for appellee. Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Stuart M. Gerson, Frederick A. Douglas, D. Michael Stroud, and John H. Bayly, Jr., Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellee.

Before KERN, NEBEKER and MACK, Associate Judges.

NEBEKER, Associate Judge:

Appellant seeks to overturn his conviction for petit larceny (shoplifting, D.C. Code 1973, § 22-2202) by attacking rulings of the trial court denying severance from a codefendant and a reopening of the trial to adduce evidence to impeach him. We reject these claims of abuse of discretion and affirm.

In the late afternoon of July 8, 1974, appellant Baxter, a codefendant named Anthony...

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