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U.S. v. HAMMOND

Nos. 94-CO-1411, 94-CO-1412.

681 A.2d 1140 (1996)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Navarro HAMMOND, Appellee. UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Chester C. WRIGHT, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 15, 1996.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Roy W. McLeese, III, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher, Assistant United States Attorney, were on the brief, for appellant.

Christopher S. Merriam, with whom Shawn Moore was on the brief, Washington, DC, for appellee Navarro Hammond.

Larry Gordon, for appellee Chester C. Wright.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, and SCHWELB and KING, Associate Judges.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

The United States has appealed from several evidentiary rulings in which the trial judge redacted portions of various statements offered against appellees Hammond and Wright under the exception to the hearsay rule for declarations against penal interest. The proffered statements were made by the appellees' former co-defendants, and the redacted portions refer to the alleged criminal conduct of third parties, including Hammond and Wright....

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