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BURKLEY v. UNITED STATES

No. 10661.

373 A.2d 878 (1977)

Nathaniel V. BURKLEY, a/k/a Vincent N. Burkley, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 6, 1977.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William Nicoson, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Neil A. Kaplan, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Albert H. Turkus and Harry R. Benner, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, YEAGLEY, Associate Judge, and HOOD, Chief Judge, Retired.

HOOD, Chief Judge, Retired:

Appellant was convicted after a trial by jury of armed robbery in violation of D.C. Code 1973, §§ 22-2901, 22-3202. The issue presented on appeal is whether the trial court erred in permitting the prosecutor to bring to the attention of the jury an alleged accomplice's refusal to testify. We affirm.

At approximately 8:30 p.m. on February 27, 1975, several men robbed a Safeway store. The robbers fled from the scene in a...

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