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KELLY v. U.S.

No. 87-840.

590 A.2d 1031 (1991)

Tony KELLY a/k/a Homer Palmer, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 10, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Bradford P. Johnson, for appellant.

Linda Otani McKinney, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher and Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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

ROGERS, Chief Judge:

Appellant Tony Kelly appeals from his convictions1 on the principal ground that the trial judge abused his discretion in denying appellant's motion for a new trial because the court denied him the right to testify at trial and his counsel was ineffective because counsel failed to protect appellant's right to testify absent a knowing and intelligent waiver. Finding these contentions unpersuasive, but observing that...

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