COX v. UNITED STATES

No. 82-830.

498 A.2d 231 (1985)

James Earl COX, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 19, 1985.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark S. Carlin, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., with whom James Klein and Susan L. Schneider, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., were on the briefs, for appellant.

John M. Facciola, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Michael W. Farrell, and Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, BELSON and ROGERS, Associate Judges.


BELSON, Associate Judge:

A jury found appellant guilty of eight counts arising out of two separate sexual assaults and his later possession of a weapon.1 Appellant challenges his convictions relating to the first two incidents on the grounds that the trial judge improperly refused to sever the counts arising respectively from the two sexual assault incidents and that the prosecutor's closing argument denied appellant his right to a fair...

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