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RAWLS v. U.S.

No. 86-1045.

539 A.2d 1087 (1988)

Mildred RAWLS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 21, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ronald Horton, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., was on the brief, for appellant.

Elizabeth H. Danello, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, and Michael W. Farrell and Mary Ellen Abrecht, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

PER CURIAM:

Appellant appeals from her conviction by a jury of second-degree murder while armed, D.C.Code §§ 22-2403, -3202 (1981), on the grounds that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of the decedent's past behavior toward appellant. We hold that in a homicide trial where the accused raises a claim of self-defense, the government may properly introduce evidence of the prior relationship between the defendant and the victim to show who was the...

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