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IN RE D.T.

No. 06-FS-979.

977 A.2d 346 (2009)

In re D.T., Appellant.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 30, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Philip C. Andonian, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, Samia Fam, and Joshua Deahl, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Stacy L. Anderson, Assistant Attorney General for the District of Columbia, with whom Peter J. Nickles, Attorney General for the District of Columbia, Todd S. Kim, Solicitor General, and Rosalyn Calbert Groce, Deputy Solicitor General, were on the brief, for appellee.

Roy W. McLeese III, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jeffrey A. Taylor, United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, was on the brief, as amicus curiae.

Before BELSON, NEBEKER, and TERRY, Senior Judges.

NEBEKER, Senior Judge:

In this appeal from appellant's adjudication of delinquency for assaulting a police officer with a deadly or dangerous weapon, D.C.Code § 22-405(b), we are presented with the question whether human teeth qualify as such a weapon. We hold that, under the circumstances revealed on this record, the teeth appellant used to bite the officer constituted a deadly or dangerous weapon, that is, an object likely to cause death or great bodily injury...

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