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FORTSON v. U.S.

Nos. 06-CF-577, 08-CO-87.

979 A.2d 643 (2009)

Lamiek Kareem FORTSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee, and Harry T. Ellis, Appellant, v. United States, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 3, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mindy A. Daniels, Esq., appointed by the court, for appellant Fortson.

Jonathan W. Anderson, appointed by the court, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Jaclyn Frankfurt, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant Ellis.

Chrisellen Kolb, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jeffrey A. Taylor, United States Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III, Thomas J. Tourish, Ann K.H. Simon and Ann M. Carroll, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before REID, GLICKMAN, and THOMPSON, Associate Judges.

THOMPSON, Associate Judge:

Gerald Lee Whitfield was kicked and stomped to death in an alley behind the 1200 block of 16th Street, N.E., in the Trinidad neighborhood, during the early morning hours of June 28, 2002. After a six-day trial during February 2006, a jury found appellants Lamiek Kareem Fortson and Harry T. Ellis guilty of Whitfield's murder, convicting Fortson of armed first-degree pre-meditated murder and Ellis of armed second-degree murder. Ellis was also...

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