BISHOP v. U.S.

No. 04-CF-853.

983 A.2d 1029 (2009)

Jabari BISHOP, Appellant v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 25, 2009.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

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

Elizabeth Gabriel, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jeffrey A. Taylor, United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, Roy W. McLeese III, and Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee United States.

Before RUIZ and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges, and SCHWELB, Senior Judge.


RUIZ, Associate Judge:

Appellant, Jabari Bishop, appeals a judgment of conviction on a jury verdict finding him guilty of threatening to damage property and do bodily harm. See D.C.Code § 22-1810. He argues that the admission of his mug shot as part of a photo array constituted an abuse of discretion meriting reversal because (1) the government had no demonstrable need to introduce the photo array, (2) the mug shot, by itself, implied that he had a criminal...

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