BUTLER v. UNITED STATES

No. 10976.

377 A.2d 54 (1977)

THOMASINA S. BUTLER, a/k/a Barbara Ransom, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 18, 1977.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Lumbard, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Steven R. Schaars, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Stanley M. Weinberg, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KELLY, KERN and GALLAGHER, Associate Judges.


KERN, Associate Judge:

A jury convicted appellant of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, D.C.Code 1973, § 22-2204. The court suspended execution of the sentence and placed her on probation for three years. Appellant asserts on appeal that the conviction must be reversed because her statutory right to exercise ten peremptory challenges, D.C.Code 1973, § 23-105(a), was significantly impaired by the trial court's particular...

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