MARTIN v. U.S.

Nos. 89-885, 89-1523.

606 A.2d 120 (1992)

Tyrone MARTIN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 30, 1991.

Rehearing and Rehearing En Banc Denied May 8, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert L. Wilkins, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Elizabeth G. Taylor, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

James N. Plamondon, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher, Roy W. McLeese, III, and Steven J. Roman, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before SCHWELB and WAGNER, Associate Judges, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.


SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Life can be cheap on the streets of our city. On the evening of March 26, 1988, Stephen Brandon jumped out of the back seat of an automobile which was being driven on Wheeler Road in southeast Washington by appellant Tyrone Martin and fired a handgun at Clayton (Ricky) Gray and Marvin Pegues. Gray was struck in the chest and died shortly afterwards; Pegues escaped unharmed.

Brandon and Martin were charged with the crimes. The prosecution...

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