SPANN v. U.S.

No. 86-953.

551 A.2d 1347 (1988)

Nathaniel SPANN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 30, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Roy W. McLeese, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell and Elizabeth Trosman, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before NEWMAN, BELSON and TERRY, Associate Judges.


TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted of assault1 and robbery.2 On this appeal he presents no challenge to the assault conviction. His sole contention is that an inculpatory statement which he made at the time of his arrest should have been suppressed, on the ground that the statement was impermissibly elicited from him when a police officer asked the robbery victim3 a...

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