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SIMS v. U.S.

No. 15-CF-914.

213 A.3d 1260 (2019)

Arik Adani SIMS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 15, 2019.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Gabriel Diaz , Public Defender Service, with whom Samia Fam and Jaclyn S. Frankfurt , Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Giovanni B. Di Maggio , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Channing D. Phillips , United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Elizabeth Trosman , Elizabeth H. Danello , Kimberley Nielsen , and Jin Park , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before Easterly and McLeese, Associate Judges, and Ferren, Senior Judge.

Our judicial system has a strong preference for live, sworn witness testimony. We want factfinders to hear from witnesses with personal knowledge of the facts and we want those witnesses to be subject to cross-examination, one of "the greatest legal engine[s] ever invented for the discovery of truth." 5 WIGMORE, EVIDENCE...

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