Legal Opinion
Clark v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 14, 1980No. 13063PublishedCited by 42 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEBEKER, Associate Judge:
Appellant was convicted following a jury trial of being an accessory after the fact of an armed robbery. See D.C. Code 1973, § 22-106. The appellant contends that his motion for acquittal should have been granted by the trial court because of insufficiency of the evidence. 1 Having reviewed the government’s evidence in this case, we agree with the appellant’s contention that there was insufficient evidence from which a jury could have found him guilty beyond a reasonable doubt. Accordingly, we reverse.
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The synopsized facts of this case are as follows. On July 10,1976,…
2Cases cited23 opinions
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- United States v. Walter J. Barlow, Jr.Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1972
- Byrd v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1978
- Sousa v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1979
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3Cited by42 opinions
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- Butler v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1984
- Jones v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1993
- Perkins v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1982
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