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CHAPPELL v. UNITED STATES

No. 85-916, 85-928.

519 A.2d 1257 (1987)

Antonio CHAPPELL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Lester McBRIDE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 15, 1987.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Hugh O'Neill, Washington, D.C., appointed by the court, for appellant Chappell.

Nancy R. Beiter, Washington, D.C., appointed by the court, for appellant McBride.

Robertson T. Park, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell and Richard A. Kaplan, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, BELSON, and STEADMAN, Associate Judges.

NEWMAN, Associate Judge:

Antonio Chappell and Lester McBride challenge their convictions of first-degree burglary and robbery on a number of grounds; we deem only one of them to merit discussion. Chappell presented an alibi defense testifying that he was with three other persons at a different location at the time of the crime. On cross-examination, the government asked the following question as to those three persons: "You know that they wouldn't say that you were...

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