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HAWKINS v. UNITED STATES

No. 82-492.

461 A.2d 1025 (1983)

Dalton HAWKINS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 18, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Scott Howe, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., with whom Franklin Burgess, Jr., Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., was on briefs, for appellant. William J. Mertens, Public Defender Service, and W. Gary Kohlman, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., also entered appearances for appellant.

Mary A. McLaughlin, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty. and Michael W. Farrell, John R. Fisher, F. Joseph Warin, and William D. Nussbaum, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, Chief Judge, and KERN and FERREN, Associate Judges.

KERN, Associate Judge:

On July 28, 1978, appellant, a taxicab driver, shot and killed another motorist following a traffic dispute. Appellant was convicted after a jury trial1 of second degree murder while armed, D.C.Code §§ 22-2403, -3202 (1981), and carrying a pistol without a license, id., § 22-3204. At trial, appellant admitted that he shot the decedent, but contended that he had done so in self-defense.

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