Legal Opinion
Gray v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided October 27, 1988No. 87-116PublishedCited by 40 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERRY, Associate Judge:
Appellant was convicted of one count of distributing phencyclidine (PCP) and one count of distributing marijuana, both in violation of D.C. Code § 33-541(a)(l) (1988). On appeal he makes several assignments of error, one of which is that the trial court erred in failing to give an alibi instruction, although requested to do so. We agree that this failure was reversible error, and accordingly we reverse appellant’s conviction. 1
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