MAURA v. U.S.

No. 87-410.

555 A.2d 1015 (1989)

Thomas MAURA, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 21, 1989.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Paul Victor Jorgensen, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, for appellant.

Su Zann Lamb, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell, and Helen M. Bollwerk, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and FERREN and BELSON, Associate Judges.


FERREN, Associate Judge:

After a jury trial, appellant was convicted of unlawful entry, D.C.Code § 22-3102 (1981). The court sentenced him to a suspended sentence of five days and placed him on probation for one year, with probation to end when appellant completed twenty hours of community service. The trial court allowed the prosecution, over defense objection, to ask each of appellant's character witnesses whether he had heard of appellant's arrest for attempted...

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