AIKEN v. U.S.

Nos. 01-CF-1503, 04-CF-963, 05-CO-505, 05-CO-506.

956 A.2d 33 (2008)

Kenneth AIKEN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 11, 2008.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jonathan W. Anderson, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Jaclyn S. Frankfurt, and Eve Hanan, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Suzanne G. Curt, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jeffrey A. Taylor, United States Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III, Elizabeth Trosman, and James S. Sweeney, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, and GLICKMAN and KRAMER, Associate Judges.


GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

Appellant Kenneth Aiken was convicted of a series of felony and misdemeanor offenses against his former girlfriend, Patricia Parker, and of escaping from a halfway house to which he had been committed prior to trial. His arguments on appeal center on the alleged deprivation of his Sixth Amendment right to the effective assistance of counsel. Appellant maintains the trial court abused its discretion by denying his pretrial request for a new...

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