Williams v. United States

Following a bench trial, appellant was found guilty of felony escape, D.C.Code § 22-2601(a)(l) (2001), based upon his successive failures to report to jail to serve weekend sentences. We affirm.

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In March 2000, appellant was convicted in the Superior Court of two counts of assault, and was sentenced to concurrent terms of 180 days in prison. As to one count, however, the court suspended execution of the sentence entirely, and as to the other the court suspended execution of the sentence except for ten consecutive weekends of incarceration. The court further ordered appellant to serve two years…