EVANS v. UNITED STATES

No. 19-CF-0511.

304 A.3d 211 (2023)

Saeve Edward EVANS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided November 16, 2023.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kelsey Townsend , Public Defender Service, with whom Samia Fam and Mikel-Meredith Weidman , Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Timothy R. Cahill , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Channing D. Phillips , Acting United States Attorney at the time, and Chrisellen R. Kolb , Elizabeth H. Danello , Lindsay Merikas , Shehzad Akhtar , and Elizabeth Gabriel , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Dissenting opinion by Associate Judge AliKhan at page 232.


The otherwise illegal possession of a firearm may be justified, so as not to be criminal, if the weapon is held in lawful self-defense. This case presents the question of when precisely that legal justification ends—whether it is the instant a person realizes the threat has subsided or if it instead extends to a period...

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