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DONALDSON v. U.S.

No. 01-CF-616.

856 A.2d 1068 (2004)

Duane DONALDSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 22, 2004.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Michael Starr, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Jennifer Lanoff, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Ann K.H. Simon, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., United States Attorney at the time, and John R. Fisher, Roy W. McLeese III, and Matthew G. Olsen, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before STEADMAN, FARRELL, and WASHINGTON, Associate Judges.

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

Appellant, Duane Donaldson, appeals from his conviction for voluntary manslaughter, in violation of D.C.Code § 22-2405 (1981) (recodified as D.C.Code § 22-2105 (2001)).1 He argues that the trial court committed two instructional errors by: (1) refusing to provide the jury a "criminal negligence" involuntary manslaughter instruction and (2) instructing the...

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