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ALEXANDER v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 12666, 79-47 and 79-312.

409 A.2d 618 (1979)

Ronald H. ALEXANDER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 10, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Cameron Johnson, Law Student No. 2156, with whom Nicholas Kuzmack, Washington, D. C., appointed by the court, and Cynthia A. Govan, Law Student No. 1869, were on the brief, for appellant.

Harold L. Cushenberry, Jr., Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time the briefs were filed, John A. Terry, Peter E. George and Alexia Morrison, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and GALLAGHER and MACK, Associate Judges.

GALLAGHER, Associate Judge:

Appellant, convicted of voluntary manslaughter, filed a motion to vacate sentence under D.C.Code 1973, § 23-110, alleging that he was denied effective assistance of counsel. This appeal results from the trial judge's dismissal of the motion without a hearing. In his § 23-110 motion, appellant claimed that his attorney (1) had failed to raise the insanity defense at trial despite a psychiatric report raising an insanity question...

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