WILKINS v. U.S.

No. 89-746.

582 A.2d 939 (1990)

Joseph WILKINS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 27, 1990.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Greenlee, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Henderson Hill, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

William Ho-Gonzales, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher and Elizabeth Trosman, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was indicted for second-degree murder while armed for the stabbing death of Earl Jones.1 A jury acquitted appellant of that charge but found him guilty of the lesser included offense of manslaughter while armed.2 On appeal from his conviction, appellant contends that the trial court erred in allowing the prosecutor to quote from the grand jury testimony of a government witness...

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