U.S. v. MORTON

No. 11-CO-1198.

50 A.3d 476 (2012)

UNITED STATES, Appellant, v. Frederick MORTON, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 9, 2012.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Elizabeth H. Danello , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney, Roy W. McLeese III , Assistant United States Attorney at the time, and Amanda Haines and Laura R. Bach , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellant.

Jonathan W. Anderson , with whom James Klein and Samia Fam , Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GLICKMAN and THOMPSON, Associate Judges, and STEADMAN, Senior Judge.


THOMPSON, Associate Judge:

This matter is pending in the Superior Court, where defendant Frederick Morton awaits trial on charges of burglary, robbery, kidnapping, and felony murder. In this interlocutory appeal, the government challenges the trial court's ruling that precludes the prosecutor from introducing at trial evidence of defendant's longstanding heroin addiction, circumstantial evidence of his drug use on the day the offenses were committed, and defendant...

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