WALKER v. U.S.

No. 91-CF-1105.

617 A.2d 525 (1992)

Joseph F. WALKER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 11, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas G. Ross, appointed by this court, for appellant.

Nancy E. Smith, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher and Jeffrey R. Ragsdale, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN, SCHWELB and KING, Associate Judges.


SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Walker was convicted by a jury of kidnaping. On appeal, he claims that the evidence was insufficient to support his conviction, that the trial judge erroneously declined to instruct the jury on purported lesser-included offenses (LIO's), and that Walker was denied a fair trial as a result of allegedly improper prosecutorial argument. We affirm.

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The government's evidence, if credited, showed that Walker was a pimp and that...

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