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SWANN v. U.S.

No. 91-CF-1141.

648 A.2d 928 (1994)

Theodore SWANN III, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 11, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Stephanie Harrison, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, was on the brief, for appellant.

Chrisellen R. Kolb, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom J. Ramsey Johnson, U.S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, and John R. Fisher, Elizabeth Trosman and N. Paul Patterson, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before STEADMAN and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and MACK, Senior Judge.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

This case arises out of a basketball court dispute between appellant, Theodore Swann, and the decedent, Steven Crawford. Appellant testified that he thought Crawford was about to draw a gun on him, so he drew first and shot at Crawford, killing him. A self-defense instruction was given, but the trial court refused to instruct the jury on voluntary manslaughter under a theory of imperfect self defense. Appellant was convicted of first-degree...

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