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JOHNSON v. U.S.

No. 89-CF-794.

609 A.2d 1112 (1992)

William M. JOHNSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 19, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Lesley S. Zork, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Henderson Hill, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Lynn Leibovitz, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher and Elizabeth Trosman, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, and PRYOR and BELSON, Senior Judges.

BELSON, Senior Judge:

Appellant William M. Johnson was convicted by a jury of second-degree murder while armed in violation of D.C.Code §§ 22-2403, -3202 (1989). He argues that a detective obtained the first of his two statements through the use of coercive tactics that are repugnant to the due process and self-incrimination provisions of the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution, and that the trial court committed reversible error by allowing...

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