Battle v. United States

FARRELL, Associate Judge.

In this appeal from appellants’ joint murder convictions arising from the shooting death of Ronald Thomas’, the primary issue concerns the trial court’s exclusion of evidence proffered by Battle to show that another person so closely resembling him that he had been mistaken for Battle committed a similar (non-fatal) shooting two weeks before the murder with one of the same pistols used in the murder. After originally charging Battle with the earlier assault, the government dismissed the charge when records appeared to show that Battle had been confined at the Oak Hill…