GILLESPIE v. UNITED STATES

No. 10441.

368 A.2d 1136 (1977)

Carl L. GILLESPIE, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 2, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Burke, Washington, D. C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Richard H. Saltsman, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, William D. Pease and David M. Bullock, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KERN, NEBEKER and MACK, Associate Judges.


NEBEKER, Associate Judge.

This appeal, from convictions of assault with a dangerous weapon and carrying a pistol without a license,1 presents a restricted cross-examination issue quite like that decided in Davis v. Alaska, 415 U.S. 308, 94 S.Ct. 1105, 39 L.Ed.2d 347 (1974) (right to use a delinquency probation adjudication to show motive to curry favor with authorities by being a prosecution witness...

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