HARPER v. U.S.

No. 90-CF-605.

608 A.2d 152 (1992)

Angela A. HARPER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 12, 1992.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Monoranjan Bezboruah, appointed by the court, for appellant.

G. Bradley Weinsheimer, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher, and Elizabeth Trosman and Gregory E. Jackson, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

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


PER CURIAM:

In this appeal appellant Angela Harper raises the principal claim that the trial judge erred by denying her request that the jury be instructed on self-defense.1 We affirm.

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Calvin Verrett went into a variety store to get change (he had only two $20 bills) for bus fare and was confronted and shot by appellant after he came out of the store to wait for a bus. Appellant, whom Mr. Verrett claimed never to have...

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