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COLBERT v. U.S.

No. 89-1261.

601 A.2d 603 (1992)

Charles COLBERT, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 24, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Thomas Ruffin, Jr., Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, was on the brief, for appellant.

Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., with whom John R. Fisher, Gregory E. Jackson, and Kristan Peters-Hamlin, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, TERRY, Associate Judge, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.

PRYOR, Senior Judge:

Appellant Charles Colbert, Jr. was tried by jury and convicted of bribery.1 D.C.Code § 22-712(a)(2) (1989). His challenges on appeal focus on the unique status of the Washington Area Metropolitan Transit Authority (WMATA), an entity created by an interjurisdictional compact. He contends that because WMATA is not an agency of the District of Columbia, he could not be a "public servant" to whom the bribery statute...

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