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RORIE v. U.S.

Nos. 96-CF-363, 03-CO-949.

882 A.2d 763 (2005)

Cornell A. RORIE, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 28, 2005.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Andrew G. Ferguson, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Public Defender Service, was on the brief, for appellant.

Patricia A. Heffernan, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Kenneth L. Wainstein, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher and Terence J. Keeney, Assistant United States Attorney, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before REID, GLICKMAN and WASHINGTON, Associate Judges.

REID, Associate Judge:

Appellant Cornell A. Rorie was indicted on a charge of second-degree murder while armed (knife), in violation of D.C.Code § 22-2403, -3202 (1996),1 but was convicted by a jury of the lesser-included offense of voluntary manslaughter while armed. He contends primarily that the trial court committed reversible error by giving the jury a "first aggressor" or provocation charge, because "[n]o evidence showed that...

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