HILL v. U.S.

No. 89-639.

600 A.2d 58 (1991)

Arnold J. HILL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 30, 1991.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied December 18, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Carol Steiker, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Page Kennedy, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Stevan E. Bunnell, 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 FERREN, BELSON and TERRY, Associate Judges.


TERRY, Associate Judge:

After a jury trial, appellant was convicted of first-degree murder while armed1 for the strangling death of his former girl friend, Shelby Duncan. On appeal he contends that the trial court erred in admitting evidence of a prior attack on Duncan under the motive exception set forth in Drew v. United States, 118 U.S.App.D.C. 11, 331 F.2d 85 (1964). Although we agree with appellant...

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