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BURNS v. U.S.

No. 17-CF-1347.

235 A.3d 758 (2020)

Eugene BURNS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 20, 2020.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew B. Kaplan , Arlington, VA, for appellant.

Eric Hansford , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jessie K. Liu , United States Attorney, and Elizabeth Trosman , Elizabeth H. Danello , Kevin Flynn , and Charles Willoughby, Jr. , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Fleming Terrell , Public Defender Service, with whom Samia Fam , Alice Wang , and Joshua Deahl , Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for Public Defender Service, amicus curiae, in support of appellant.

Before Fisher and Easterly, Associate Judges, and Kravitz, Associate Judge, Superior Court of the District of Columbia.

We issued a summary order of judgment on March 30, 2020 reversing appellant Eugene Burns's convictions in this case. We now issue this formal opinion stating the full reasoning underlying our decision.

A Superior Court jury found Mr. Burns guilty of first-degree premeditated...

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