Legal Opinion
Guillard v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 13, 1991No. 89-43PublishedCited by 21 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BELSON, Senior Judge:
Appellant Hubert Guillard challenges his conviction for simple assault, D.C.Code § 22-504 (1989). His principal contention is that the trial judge erroneously denied his request for a self-defense instruction. We agree, and remand for a new trial.
On June 6, 1988, a hot day, appellant Hubert Guillard, a chef at the Tiberio Restaurant, and two other Tiberio chefs, Rene Toxuant and Wygbert Kriel, were eating at a table in the restaurant kitchen when complainant Dennis Degiampietro, a sixty-three-year-old waiter at Tiberio, opened a kitchen door leading outside to get some…
2Cases cited7 opinions
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- Curry v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1987
- Harling v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
- Reid v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1990
- Adams v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1989
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