FARRELL v. UNITED STATES

No. 12051.

391 A.2d 755 (1978)

William C. FARRELL, a/k/a Suli Abdullah, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 21, 1978.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Laban L. B. Chang, Law Student Counsel, L.S. No. 1787, with whom Michael E. Geltner, Washington, D. C., Supervising Atty., appointed by this court, was on the brief, for appellant.

William J. Hardy, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry and Michael W. Farrell, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and GALLAGHER, Associate Judge, and PRYOR, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia.


NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

Tried by a jury on a felony indictment alleging destruction of private property valued in excess of $200.00, appellant was convicted of the lesser-included misdemeanor of destruction of private property valued at less than $200.00. See D.C.Code 1973, § 22-403. As his principal contention on appeal appellant alleges that the trial court violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel by failing to conduct sufficient inquiry into his pretrial...

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