MATTER OF S.H.

No. 87-588.

570 A.2d 814 (1990)

In the Matter of S.H., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 28, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Greenlee, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Jennifer P. Lyman, and Henderson Hill, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., were on the briefs, for appellant.

Mary L. Wilson, Asst. Corp. Counsel, with whom Frederick D. Cooke, Jr., Corp. Counsel at the time the briefs were filed, and Charles L. Reischel, Deputy Corp. Counsel, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for the District of Columbia.

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


STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

Appellant, a juvenile, appeals from the trial court's adjudication of delinquency for felony murder and two related counts. Appellant makes two principal assignments of error. First, the trial court erred in forbidding in cross-examination any inquiry into bias of a key government witness stemming from his friendship with a possible alternative perpetrator of the crime. Second, the trial court erred in applying the "reverse Jencks" rule...

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