Mathis v. United States

PAIR, Senior Judge:

Following a lengthy jury trial, appellant was found guilty as charged of first-degree murder while armed. 1 Appellant, through counsel and pro se, now asserts several grounds for reversal of his conviction: (1) denial of a motion for acquittal on the basis of insufficiency of the evidence of identification; (2) the security procedures and devices used at trial deprived appellant of a fair trial; (3) improper admission of evidence of other crimes; (4) several instances of prosecutorial misconduct during closing argument; and (5) due process violations when the trial court…