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MARTIN v. U.S.

No. 05-CF-1352.

991 A.2d 791 (2010)

Kelvin L. MARTIN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided April 1, 2010.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Corinne Beckwith, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Jaclyn S. Frankfurt, Public Defender Service, were on the briefs, for appellant.

Chrisellen Kolb, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jeffrey A. Taylor, United States Attorney at the time, Roy W. McLeese III, Timothy G. Lynch, and Ann K.H. Simon, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before REID, GLICKMAN and OBERLY, Associate Judges.

GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

Appealing his conviction for assaulting a police officer, appellant Kelvin Martin claims the trial court violated his Sixth Amendment right to counsel by ordering him not to speak to his attorney about his testimony over a weekend recess that interrupted his cross-examination. We agree with appellant that this was plain error necessitating reversal.

I.

Appellant was indicted and tried on one count of aggravated assault...

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