WILKES v. U.S.

No. 91-CF-263.

631 A.2d 880 (1993)

Thomas A. WILKES, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 23, 1993.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

David Merchant, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Sandra G. Roland, Public Defender Service, Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellant.

Roy W. McLeese, III, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, and John R. Fisher, L. Bruce Delaplaine, and Leslie Ann Wise, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellee.

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


TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant Wilkes was convicted of armed second-degree murder and related offenses.1 At trial he raised an insanity defense and relied primarily on the expert testimony of a psychiatrist. To impeach that testimony, the government cross-examined the psychiatrist about two statements which the police had taken from Wilkes in violation of Miranda v. Arizona, ...

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