DAYE v. U.S.

No. 96-CF-1970.

733 A.2d 321 (1999)

Lenard DAYE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 15, 1999.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Julie Brain, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Samia Fam, and Julia Bollini, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Stephen R. Martin, II, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher, Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., and Kathleen O'Connor, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, and FARRELL and REID, Associate Judges.


FARRELL, Associate Judge:

Found guilty by a jury of first-degree murder while armed, related weapons offenses, and obstruction of justice, appellant contends primarily that the trial judge allowed the government to bolster the testimony of two key witnesses improperly by introducing their prior consistent statements without meeting the evidentiary requirement for admission of such statements. He argues that the prosecutor then compounded the prejudice that the statements...

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