BROWN v. U.S.

No. 11-CF-1009.

59 A.3d 967 (2013)

Marcus D. BROWN, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 24, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Erek L. Barron was on the brief for appellant.

Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney, with whom Elizabeth Trosman , Jennifer A. Kerkhoff , Erin O. Lyons , and Anne Y. Park , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief for appellee.

Before BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY and OBERLY, Associate Judges, and FERREN, Senior Judge.


FERREN, Senior Judge:

This appeal comes from a trial of five defendants involving two related, though not overlapping, conspiracies.1 The only issue on appeal arose out of the jury deliberations, so we forego recitation of the evidence presented at trial. For the reasons that follow, we reverse and remand for a new trial.

I.

On April 11, 2011, the jury sent a note to the trial court indicating that it had reached a verdict...

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