WILLIAMS v. U.S.

No. 07-CF-1098.

6 A.3d 843 (2010)

Carl WILLIAMS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 28, 2010.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Klein , Public Defender Service, and Corinne Beckwith and Shilpa S. Satoskar , Public Defender Service, were on the brief for appellant.

Ronald C. Machen, Jr. , United States Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III , Mary B. McCord , Deborah Sines , and Elizabeth Gabriel , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief for appellee.

Before REID and BLACKBURNERIGSBY, Associate Judges, and NEBEKER, Senior Judge.


NEBEKER, Senior Judge:

Following a seven day jury trial, appellant Carl Williams was convicted of one count of first-degree murder while armed in violation of D.C.Code §§ 22-2101, -4502 for the shooting death of Ephraim Agee. On appeal, he contends that the trial court committed reversible error by failing to instruct the jury in the words requested on the defense's theory of innocence. We disagree and affirm.

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