Brown v. United States

NEWMAN, Associate Judge:

Ava Brown appeals her conviction for malicious destruction of property stemming from an incident in which Brown smashed the front windows and door of her mother’s home in an effort to get inside and take possession of her runaway son, who was then staying at his grandmother’s home. Brown charges that the court erred by (1) ruling that as a matter of law the grandmother’s refusal to turn over Brown’s son was inadequate provocation for Brown’s act of destruction, and (2) refusing to permit Brown to introduce evidence of provocation — specifically, that her mother had…