YOUNG v. U.S.

No. 98-CF-1647.

745 A.2d 943 (2000)

Rose A. YOUNG, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 17, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Linda Sroufe, appointed by the court, Oxon Hill, MD, for appellant.

Chrisellen R. Kolb, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, John R. Fisher, Mary-Patrice Brown, and Ryan H. Rainey, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before TERRY, STEADMAN and RUIZ, Associate Judges.


STEADMAN, Associate Judge.

Before us is an interlocutory pretrial appeal. Appellant Rose Young was acquitted at a prior trial of first-degree child abuse. She now challenges on double jeopardy grounds the government's right to try her on a new count of first-degree child abuse. The government asserts that the new count is based on an act of abuse (scalding the child's foot) distinct from the act of abuse in the prior count...

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