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WOODARD v. U.S.

No. 84-236.

551 A.2d 826 (1988)

Charles G. WOODARD A/K/A Woody Woodard, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 16, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Barbara E. Sosnick, appointed by this court, for appellant.

Kathyrn A. Myerscough, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Timothy J. Reardon, III, Principal Asst. U.S. Atty., Michael W. Farrell, and Elizabeth Trosman, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before MACK and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and GALLAGHER, Senior Judge.

I

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

In the afternoon of November 1, 1973, appellant Charles G. Woodard entered a home in Washington, D.C. and brutally murdered an elderly couple, their daughter, and her two year old son. The two older victims were stabbed repeatedly with kitchen knives, strangled with a telephone cord, bludgeoned with a hammer, and shot through the head. Their daughter and grandchild were strangled to death.

On the evening of the same day...

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