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HILL v. U.S.

No. 91-CF-655.

622 A.2d 680 (1993)

David E. HILL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 30, 1993.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

J. Herbie DiFonzo, appointed by the court, for appellant.

M. Evan Corcoran, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher, and Thomas C. Black, Asst. U.S. Attys., and William J. Landers, Asst. U.S. Atty., at the time the brief was filed, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, FARRELL, Associate Judge, and KERN, Senior Judge.

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

It is a salutary and perhaps even common practice for trial judges in criminal cases, when appropriate, to instruct jurors to suppress any temptation they may have to visit the location of the alleged crime on their own. The trial judge regretted not having done so in this case, for, as it happened, a juror ventured out to the scene of the alleged drug sale the night before deliberations began to examine the lighting conditions. Appellant...

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