ROBERTS v. U.S.

No. 03-CF-853.

916 A.2d 922 (2007)

Orlando ROBERTS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 15, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Alice Wang, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Andrea Roth, Public Defender Service, were on the briefs, for appellant.

Valinda Jones, with whom Kenneth L. Wainstein, United States Attorney at the time the original briefs were filed,* and Roy W. McLeese III, Assistant United States Attorney, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FARRELL, RUIZ, and BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judges.


FARRELL, Associate Judge:

A jury found appellant guilty of first-degree sexual abuse, crediting the testimony of thirteen-year-old K.W. that in January 2001 he drove her to the Stadium Armory parking lot in Southeast Washington and forced her to have sexual intercourse with him. (Though unrelated to her, appellant lived in the same home as K.W.). Some weeks later, K.W. told her mother of the assault after the mother saw open sores on the child's genitals that were...

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