KEYS v. U.S.

No. 98-CF-857.

767 A.2d 255 (2001)

Breond KEYS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 22, 2001.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

William T. Morrison, Silver Spring, MD, appointed by the court, for appellant Breond Keys.

Mark Lesko, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher, Roy W. McLeese, III, and Eileen F. Sheehan, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

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


GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

Appellant Breond Keys contends that his convictions for first degree burglary, assault and other offenses must be reversed on the principal grounds that the prosecutor elicited perjury from the complainant after the trial court erroneously overruled the complainant's assertion of a Fifth Amendment privilege not to testify. We hold that Keys is not entitled to relief. The prosecutor engaged in no misconduct, and Keys lacks standing to challenge...

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