MATTER OF D.B.H.

No. 87-551.

549 A.2d 351 (1988)

In the Matter of D.B.H., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 27, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Ruffin, Jr., Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Mary L. Wilson, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corp. Counsel, Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, and Lutz Alexander Prager, Asst. Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before MACK, TERRY and STEADMAN, Associate Judges.


PER CURIAM:

A petition, filed in the Family Division of the Superior Court, recited that appellant D.B.H. appeared to be in need of care and rehabilitation and charged him with robbery in violation of D.C.Code § 22-2901 (1981). The facts at trial revealed the following uncomplicated teenage encounter. Complainant Kenton Long was selling newspapers door-to-door in an apartment building when accosted by D.B.H., whom he knew from school.1

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