Legal Opinion
In re C.A.
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided June 14, 2018No. 16-FS-632PublishedCited by 7 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Easterly, Associate Judge:
*121 Appellant C.A. appeals from a determination that he was "involved" in two counts of attempted first degree murder while armed and related lesser charges. He argues both that the trial court should not have precluded his impeachment of a key government witness and that it should not have admitted a prior consistent statement by that same witness. We review the trial court's evidentiary rulings for abuse of discretion, recognizing that it is necessarily such an abuse for the trial court to employ "incorrect legal standards." Mayhand v. United States , 127 A.3d 1198 ,…
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