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CLYBURN v. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA

No. 97-FM-693.

741 A.2d 395 (1999)

Sarah CLYBURN, Appellant, v. The DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 18, 1999.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Whitehead, Jr., Ellicott City, MD, for appellant.

Jo Anne Robinson, Principal Deputy Corporation Counsel, Robert R. Rigsby, Deputy Corporation Counsel at the time the brief was filed, and Rosalyn Calbert Groce, Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellee.

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

RUIZ, Associate Judge:

Following a bench trial, appellant was convicted of thirteen counts of failing to have her child regularly attend school, in violation of the Compulsory School Attendance Act, D.C.Code § 31-402(a) (1993). On appeal, she argues that the evidence was insufficient to support the conviction because there was no proof that she had custody or control of her child at the time the violations occurred. Specifically, appellant contends that the trial...

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