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BAPTIST v. UNITED STATES

No. 82-887.

466 A.2d 452 (1983)

Alvin BAPTIST, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 9, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Narasimha Swamy, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Robert K. Reed, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell, Judith Hetherton and Wallace H. Kleindienst, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before KERN and BELSON, Associate Judges, and REILLY, Chief Judge, Retired.

BELSON, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted by a jury of one count of attempted burglary in the second degree under D.C.Code §§ 22-103, -1801(b) (1981) and one count of attempted petit larceny under D.C.Code §§ 22-103, -2202 (1981). He contends on this appeal that the manner in which the prosecutor used three prior convictions to impeach appellant on cross-examination impermissibly suggested appellant's guilt of the crimes with which he was...

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