Byrd v. United States

BELSON, Associate Judge:

We granted appellant’s petition for rehearing en banc to consider his contention that for a single killing he may not be convicted of, and receive concurrent sentences for, both first-degree felony murder while armed and first-degree premeditated murder while armed. The division which initially heard this appeal was convinced that appellant’s position was correct, but affirmed both murder convictions because it was bound by precedent to do so. Byrd v. United States, 500 A.2d 1376 (D.C.1985), vacated, 505 A.2d 51 (D.C.1986). See M.A.P. v. Ryan, 285 A.2d 310, 312…