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JOHNSON v. U.S.

No. 91-CF-5.

683 A.2d 1087 (1996)

William A. JOHNSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 17, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Elizabeth Kent, appointed by this court, Washington, DC, for appellant.

Thomas J. Tourish, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jay B. Stephens, United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and John R. Fisher, Daniel S. Friedman and Caroline Marnock Carey, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, FERREN, TERRY, STEADMAN, SCHWELB, FARRELL, KING, RUIZ, and REID, Associate Judges, and BELSON, Senior Judge.

BELSON, Senior Judge:

The issues presented by this case lead us to reexamine the law of this jurisdiction concerning the admission of evidence of crimes other than the crime with which a defendant is charged. Having done so, we reaffirm the longstanding principle set forth in Drew v. United States1 that evidence of another crime is inadmissible to prove disposition to commit the crime charged. At the same time, we continue to recognize...

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