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KING v. U.S.

Nos. 86-1400, 86-1451,

550 A.2d 348 (1988)

Angela R. KING, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee. Darryl A. MANNING, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 17, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elaine Mittleman, Falls Church, Va., appointed by this court, by for appellant King.

G. Godwin Oyewole, Alexandria, Va., appointed by this court, for appellant Manning.

N. Paul Patterson, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, and Michael W. Farrell, Helen M. Bollwerk, and G. Paul Howes, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

This is a case which reminds us that conflict between powerful competing human emotions is not unique to persons of great renown, such as the King of England who gave up his throne for love, but also visits with more humble folk. Closing argument was about to begin in what had been, until then, a rather conventional two-defendant jury trial involving the sale of "love" or "loveboat"1 to an undercover police officer...

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