WATSON v. U.S.

No. 08-CO-985.

66 A.3d 542 (2013)

William WATSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 23, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jenifer Wicks , Washington, DC, for appellant.

Suzanne G. Curt , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney, Roy W. McLeese III , Assistant United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Kenneth F. Whitted and James Sweeney , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before GLICKMAN and EASTERLY, Associate Judges, and FARRELL, Senior Judge.


GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

The question in this appeal is whether appellant William Watson's Sixth Amendment rights were violated at his trial by the introduction of incriminating statements he had made to a fellow jail inmate named Charles Bender. The answer turns on whether Bender was acting as the government's agent when he elicited appellant's statements. In a previous decision in this case, we remanded for the Superior...

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