STATON v. UNITED STATES

No. 80-811.

466 A.2d 1245 (1983)

Theodore STATON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 30, 1983.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas L. Fairfield, law student counsel, with whom Steven H. Goldblatt, Samuel Dash, Washington, D.C., G. Richard Strafer, and Suzanne M. Halbardier, law student counsel, were on briefs, for appellant.

John E. Stevens, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., and Judith Hetherton and William J. O'Malley, Jr., Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN and BELSON, Associate Judges, and KELLY, Associate Judge, Retired.


BELSON, Associate Judge:

Following a jury trial appellant was found guilty of rape while armed, D.C.Code §§ 22-2801, -3202 (1981) and armed robbery, id. §§ 22-2901, -3202, and sentenced to concurrent terms of 10 to 30 years. Thereafter he noted this appeal, in which he contends that the trial court erred in: 1) permitting the government to impeach a defense witness by eliciting certain evidence of bias; 2) admitting into evidence a confession...

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