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LAUMER v. UNITED STATES

No. 12246.

409 A.2d 190 (1979)

Henry LAUMER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 5, 1979.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol G. Freeman, Glen Echo Heights, Md., appointed by the court, for appellant.

Andrea L. Harnett, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Earl J. Silbert, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time the brief was filed, John A. Terry, and Peter E. George, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on the brief for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KELLY, KERN, GALLAGHER, NEBEKER, HARRIS, MACK, FERREN, Associate Judges, and YEAGLEY, Associate Judge, Retired.

NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

On this appeal, we are asked to consider whether declarations against penal interest should be admissible in evidence as an exception to the hearsay rule in this jurisdiction. Concluding that they should, we remand for a new evidentiary hearing and for a ruling on whether the excluded statements meet the standards for admissibility that we adopt herein.1 In Part I, we set forth the relevant evidence and trial proceedings...

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