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THOMPSON v. U.S.

No. 87-424.

546 A.2d 414 (1988)

Tony THOMPSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 11, 1988.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Leslie B. Holt, Silver Spring, Md., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Kevin A. Forder, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph diGenova, U.S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, and Michael W. Farrell, Helen M. Bollwerk, and Kenneth D. Bynum, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before MACK, FERREN and SCHWELB, Associate Judges.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Almost half a century ago, long before Glasnost and Perestroika, a famous statesman with a gift for words described the Soviet Union as "a riddle wrapped in a mystery inside an enigma."1 The future prime minister's description of a then inscrutable nation would have been, and would remain today, an apt appraisal of the state of the law pertaining to the admission of proof of "other crimes." When...

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