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DORMAN v. UNITED STATES

No. 81-1302.

491 A.2d 455 (1984)

Lawrence M. DORMAN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 2, 1984.

Opinion filed April 25, 1985.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jo Ann Abramson, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Michael W. Farrell, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., at the time brief was filed, and Steven D. Gordon, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., were on petition, for appellee.

Silas Wasserstrom, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, as amicus curiae.

Before PRYOR, Chief Judge, NEBEKER, MACK, NEWMAN, FERREN, BELSON and ROGERS, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER and KERN, Associate Judges, Retired.

BELSON, Associate Judge.

The reconsideration of this appeal gives the en banc court an opportunity to consider this jurisdiction's law on impeachment of defendants by previous convictions.

Appellant contends that the sequence of the prosecutor's questions during appellant's cross-examination suggested to the jury that because appellant had been convicted of past offenses he must be guilty of the charged offense. A...

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