Legal Opinion
Coleman v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 23, 2001No. 98-CF-13, 98-CO-517PublishedCited by 26 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
Appellant was convicted of felony malicious destruction of property for setting his father’s house on fire. D.C.Code § 22-403 (1996 Repl.). During cross-examination, appellant’s sister blurted out that appellant had set fires before in that same house. On appeal, he contends that the trial court erred in refusing to grant a mistrial or give an immediate instruction to the jury. The trial court did give a corrective instruction the next day at the end of the government’s case. We agree with appellant that in the special circumstances of this case, an immediate…
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