LEWIS v. U.S.

No. 02-CM-1355.

938 A.2d 771 (2007)

Leonard C. LEWIS, Appellant v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 31, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Charles H. Fitzpatrick, Washington, appointed by the court, for appellant.

Andrea Roth, with whom James Klein and Samia Fam were on the brief and supplemental briefs, for the Public Defender Service as amicus curiae.

Mary B. McCord, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Roscoe C. Howard, Jr., United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, Kenneth L. Wainstein, United States Attorney at the time the first supplemental brief was filed, Jeffrey A. Taylor, United States Attorney at the time the second supplemental brief was filed (and currently), John R. Fisher, Assistant United States Attorney at the time the brief and first supplemental brief were filed, and Roy W. McLeese, III, Glen Donath, Margaret J. Chriss, Jessie K. Liu, and Valinda Jones, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief and supplemental briefs, for appellee.

Before WAGNER, STEADMAN, and TERRY, Senior Judges.


TERRY, Senior Judge:

After a non-jury trial, appellant was convicted of assault. With support from amicus curiae, the Public Defender Service, appellant seeks reversal based on, inter alia, the decision of the Supreme in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004). Specifically, appellant and amicus contend that certain out-of-court hearsay statements that were admitted into...

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