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CROOK v. U.S.

No. 98-CF-1606.

771 A.2d 355 (2001)

Rasheed CROOK, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 12, 2001.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Clarence Powell, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Samia Fam, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Valinda Jones, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher, Roy W. McLeese III, and John Brownlee, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before STEADMAN, FARRELL and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

Police arrested appellant after seeing him holding a gun while in close proximity to a man bleeding from the waist. As appellant was being handcuffed, the officer observed that appellant himself was suffering from a bullet wound. Thus realizing that other armed individuals might be in the vicinity, the officer asked several questions about the cause of the wounds. Appellant incriminated himself in one of his answers.

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