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COOPER v. UNITED STATES

No. 83-1558.

512 A.2d 1002 (1986)

Leon D. COOPER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 28, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blair Brown, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Mark Carlin, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., were on briefs, for appellant.

T. Mark Flanagan, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., Michael W. Farrell, Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., and James F. Rutherford, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before PRYOR, Chief Judge, and MACK and BELSON, Associate Judges.

BELSON, Associate Judge:

A jury convicted Leon D. Cooper of voluntary manslaughter while armed, D.C. Code §§ 22-2405 and -3202, and carrying a pistol without a license, id. -3204. On appeal, Cooper asserts that the trial judge erred when he refused to instruct the jury that the appellant had an unqualified right to stand his ground in the face of an attack in his home, but instead instructed the jury in...

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