MORRIS v. U.S.

Nos. 87-102, 87-197 and 87-290.

564 A.2d 746 (1989)

Rodric MORRIS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. Haywood PHILLIPS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee. Nathan MORRIS III, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Argued March 14, 1989.

Decided September 29, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Ralph Larry Warren, with whom Edwin Harvey was on the brief for appellant, Rodric Morris.

Richard S. Greenlee, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., was on the brief for appellant, Haywood Phillips.

Ronald A. Goodbread, Washington, D.C., for appellant, Nathan Morris.

Geoffrey Brigham, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., at the time the brief was filed, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and MACK, Associate Judge, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.


No. 87-102 Submitted March 14, 1989.

Nos. 87-197 and 87-290 Argued March 14, 1989.

MACK, Associate Judge:

In these consolidated appeals, appellants—two brothers and their cousin — challenge their conviction, by a jury, of raping and sodomizing the complainant. It is alleged that complainant had asked appellant Rodric Morris, her coworker, for a ride home, but under a pretext he drove her to the home of co-appellant Haywood Phillips. After...

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