BEATTY v. U.S.

No. 84-1527.

544 A.2d 699 (1988)

Dwight C. BEATTY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 14, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald A. Goodbread, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Sharon A. Sprague, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, and Michael W. Farrell, Mary Ellen Abrecht and Robert K. Reed, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, ROGERS and STEADMAN, Associate Judges.


NEWMAN, Associate Judge:

Beatty contends the evidence identifying him as one of the two bandits who committed the armed robberies and related offenses at issue in this case was insufficient to sustain his convictions. We agree and reverse.1

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On November 11, 1981, two men committed armed robbery and related offenses at Shoe World, a ladies shoe store. Present in the store at the time and victimized by the bandits were...

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