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WONSON v. U.S.

No. 12-CF-1433.

144 A.3d 1 (2016)

Michael WONSON, Appellant v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 14, 2016.

Amended July 21, 2016.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah A. Persico for appellant. Joseph Virgilio was on the brief for appellant.

Katherine M. Kelly , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Vincent H. Cohen, Jr. , Acting United States Attorney, and Elizabeth Trosman , John P. Mannarino , Emory V. Cole , and Opher Shweiki , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on brief, for appellee.

Before BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY and EASTERLY, Associate Judges, and REID, Senior Judge.

Michael Wonson asks us to reverse his two murder convictions because the government failed to present evidence that it maintained custody over the ballistics evidence (multiple cartridge cases and one live round) admitted at trial. Although a crime-scene search technician testified that he collected these items at the scene, and a firearms...

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