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GUILLARD v. U.S.

No. 89-43.

596 A.2d 60 (1991)

Hubert GUILLARD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 13, 1991.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Boniface K. Cobbina, Washington, D.C., appointed by the court, for appellant.

Bernadette C. Sargeant, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher, Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., and Sharon A. Sprague, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before STEADMAN and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

BELSON, Senior Judge:

Appellant Hubert Guillard challenges his conviction for simple assault, D.C.Code § 22-504 (1989). His principal contention is that the trial judge erroneously denied his request for a self-defense instruction. We agree, and remand for a new trial.

On June 6, 1988, a hot day, appellant Hubert Guillard, a chef at the Tiberio Restaurant, and two other Tiberio chefs, Rene Toxuant and Wygbert Kriel, were eating at a table in the restaurant...

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