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BLISS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 80-1060, 80-1075.

445 A.2d 625 (1982)

Peter C. BLISS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 6, 1982.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew L. Lipps, Public Defender Service, Washington, D. C., with whom Silas J. Wasserstrom and William J. Mertens, Public Defender Service, Washington, D. C., were on briefs, for appellant.

William J. Birney, Asst. U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., with whom Charles F. C. Ruff, U. S. Atty., Washington, D. C., at the time the brief was filed, John A. Terry, Edward D. Ross, Jr. and Wayne P. Williams, Asst. U. S. Attys., Washington, D. C., were on brief, for appellee.

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

KELLY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted by a jury of felony-murder while armed and armed robbery of a cabdriver (No. 80-1060) and, in another, unrelated trial, of burglary in the second degree while armed and armed robbery of the Logan Inn (No. 80-1075). In this consolidated appeal, he alleges that (1) his right to cut off questioning was not scrupulously honored; (2) his statements to the police about the shooting of the cabdriver were involuntary; (3) his...

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