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STACK v. UNITED STATES

No. 84-1101.

519 A.2d 147 (1986)

Robert STACK, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 17, 1986.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark Rochon, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Mark Carlin, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Daniel S. Seikaly, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell, Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., and Charles S. Leeper, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before MACK, TERRY, and ROGERS, Associate Judges.

ROGERS, Associate Judge:

Appellant Robert Stack was indicted for the second degree murder, D.C.Code § 22-2403 (1981), of Helen Bataineh, who died on June 8, 1983, as a result of a subdural hematoma. According to the government's theory, Stack caused the fatal hematoma when he struck Bataineh in the face on June 6, 1983. Stack's defense was that he struck her in self-defense and that the government had failed to establish...

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