FORD v. U.S.

No. 98-CF-119.

759 A.2d 643 (2000)

Terrance A. FORD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 21, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Morrison, appointed by the court, for appellant.

L. Jackson Thomas, II, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher, Mary-Patrice Brown, and Peter R. Zeidenberg, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before TERRY and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and BELSON, Senior Judge.


TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was convicted of second-degree murder while armed, assault with a dangerous weapon, and two related firearms offenses. On appeal he argues that the trial court coerced the jury into a guilty verdict when, after the jurors revealed their numerical split, the court instructed them to decide the case "without other extraneous, irrelevant issues coming into play." We affirm.

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On the afternoon of July 23, 1996, sixteen...

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