Legal Opinion

Letsinger v. United States

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided May 22, 1979No. 12364PublishedCited by 26 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

KERN, Associate Judge:

A jury convicted appellant of second-degree murder while armed, second-degree murder, armed robbery, robbery, and assault with a deadly weapon. 1 After vacating the lesser-included offenses, the trial court sentenced appellant to five to fifteen years for armed robbery and fifteen to forty-five years for second-degree murder, to be served concurrently. On appeal appellant charges that several errors committed by the court and prosecuting attorney require reversal. We find none of the asserted errors to be of a nature requiring reversal and therefore affirm.

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2Cases cited22 opinions

  1. Davis v. AlaskaSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
  2. Washington v. TexasSupreme Court of the United States · 1967
  3. Remmer v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1954
  4. Rogers v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1951
  5. Brown v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1958

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3Cited by26 opinions

  1. State v. LongSupreme Court of Rhode Island · 1985
  2. Reese v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1983
  3. Leeper v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1990
  4. Parker v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 2000
  5. Salim v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1984

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