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DENT v. UNITED STATES

No. 13798.

404 A.2d 165 (1979)

Maurice E. DENT, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 16, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Daniel Burke, Washington, D. C., for appellant.

F. Joseph Warin, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., John A. Terry, Peter E. George, and Larry G. Whitney, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellee.

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

NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

Appellant seeks reversal of his conviction for robbery. He contends that the government's cross-examination of him and its closing argument, which repeatedly called to the jury's attention the absence of certain witnesses and asked the jury to draw inferences adverse to him from their absence, was prejudicial error. We agree and reverse.1

On January 27, 1978, at about 6:30 p. m., Sandra Reaves returned from...

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