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BECKHAM v. U.S.

No. 89-CF-1238.

609 A.2d 1122 (1992)

Kevin A. BECKHAM, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 22, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mitchell S. Baer, Washington, D.C., appointed by the court, for appellant.

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

Before FARRELL and KING, Associate Judges, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

In this appeal from appellant's adjudication of criminal contempt for violating a condition of pretrial release, we are obliged to reverse because the trial judge denied appellant the constitutional right to testify in his own behalf under oath.

I.

Appellant was arrested on May 30, 1989, for unlawfully possessing cocaine with intent to distribute (D.C.Code § 33-541(a)(1) (1988)). The following day, the court released...

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