WOODARD v. U.S.

No. 06-CF-1134.

56 A.3d 125 (2012)

Darryl WOODARD, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 24, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Shilpa S. Satoskar , Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Jaclyn S. Frankfurt , Public Defender Service, were on the brief for appellant.

Leslie Ann Gerardo , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jeffrey A. Taylor , United States Attorney at the time, and Roy W. McLeese III , Elizabeth Trosman , and Daniel Butler , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief for appellee.

Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, THOMPSON, Associate Judge, and FARRELL, Senior Judge.


FARRELL, Senior Judge:

A partly reconstituted division of the court granted rehearing in this case to reconsider our previous holding that the prosecutor's closing argument did not foster a misleading impression by the jury, sufficient to warrant reversal, of the credibility of an important government witness. See Woodard v. United States, 1 A.3d 371, 376 (D.C.2010). We now hold that the argument in question might well have...

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