Brannon v. United States

NEBEKER, Senior Judge:

Following a bench trial, appellant Terry Brannon was convicted of two counts of assaulting a police officer (“APO”), 1 one count of maliciously destroying property 2 and one count of failing to comply with a lawful order. 3 On appeal, appellant contends that his APO charges merge as one continuous course of assaultive conduct and he challenges his destruction of property conviction, claiming he acted under adequate provocation. We affirm.

I

On the evening of May 11, 2010, appellant was pulled over for speeding by an unmarked police vehicle containing Metropolitan Police…