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YATES v. U.S.

No. 85-893.

513 A.2d 818 (1986)

Darvin L. YATES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 6, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gregg Schaaf, Washington, D.C., appointed by the court, was on brief, for appellant.

Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Michael W. Farrell, Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., R. Jeffrey Behm, and Daniel S. Friedman, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN, TERRY and STEADMAN, Associate Judges.

FERREN, Associate Judge:

A jury convicted appellant of unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, D.C.Code § 22-3815 (1986 Supp.).1 He contends on appeal that the trial court violated his Sixth Amendment right to present witnesses. More specifically, he asserts that the court coerced his co-defendant into repudiating a written statement that tended to exculpate appellant, in favor of testifying for the government that appellant had known...

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