LEE v. U.S.

No. 02-CM-45.

831 A.2d 378 (2003)

Jonetta C. LEE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 4, 2003.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip Leventhal, appointed by the court, was on the brief for appellant.

Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., United States Attorney, John R. Fisher, Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., and Catharine A. Hartzenbusch, Assistant United States Attorneys, and Frances P. Callanan, Special Assistant United States Attorney, were on the brief for appellee.

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


TERRY, Associate Judge:

Appellant was charged by information with simple assault, attempted cruelty to children in the second degree, and attempted possession of a prohibited weapon. All of these charges arose from the same incident, in which appellant struck her sixteen-year-old daughter on the shoulders and legs with a wooden dowel. At a non-jury trial, appellant conceded that she struck and caused harm to her daughter, but claimed self-defense and asserted the...

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