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WILSON v. U.S.

No. 86-339.

558 A.2d 1135 (1989)

Leon A. WILSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 9, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan Zucker, appointed by this court, for appellant.

Gregory E. Jackson, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell, Helen M. Bollwerk and Ellen Bass, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and STEADMAN and SCHWELB, Associate Judges.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

This case presents a collision between the right of a criminal defendant to call a witness in his own defense and the privilege of that witness not to incriminate himself. Appellant Leon A. Wilson asks us to set aside his conviction of taking property without right (TPWR) in violation of D.C. Code § 22-3816 (1987 Supp.). He contends that the trial judge committed reversible error by sustaining a blanket invocation of the privilege against...

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