Legal Opinion
Young v. Scales
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided April 21, 2005No. 03-CV-1515PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
KERN, Senior Judge:
Shortly after midnight on August 5, 2001, appellee Marcus Scales approached the driver’s side of a parked auto (not a police vehicle) in which appellant Eric Young, a police officer off duty and out of uniform, was seated behind the steering wheel with his window open. Scales did not know Young but did know the woman (the other occupant of the car) sitting in the front passenger seat. He knew her to be a prostitute. Scales spoke to the woman and told her to get out of the car. Then, without speaking a word to Young, he commenced to stab him with a pocket knife which had a…
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