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VEGA v. U.S.

Nos. 95-CO-1558, 95-CO-1654, 95-CO-1678, 95-CO-1679, 95-CO-1692, 95-CO-1693, 95-CO-1715, 95-CO-1785, 95-CO-1786.

709 A.2d 1168 (1998)

Nicholas T. VEGA, et al., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 2, 1998.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth R. Dewey, with whom Sheldon Krantz, was on the brief, Washington, DC, for appellants.

Ann Rosenfield, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Mary Lou Leary, United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and John R. Fisher and Elizabeth Trosman, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FARRELL, KING, and RUIZ, Associate Judges.

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

These nine defendants appeal from their convictions on retrial for unlawful entry and the preceding denial of their motions to dismiss on double jeopardy grounds. The retrial was occasioned because the judge at the first trial declared a mistrial on grounds of "manifest necessity."1 The judge did so after the defendants' jointly-retained attorney failed to appear in court to give closing argument, conduct which...

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