Legal Opinion
JOEL CASTON v. UNITED STATES
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 29, 2016No. 15-CO-36PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
THOMPSON, Associate Judge:
In 1996, a jury convicted appellant of the August 1994 fatal shooting of Rafique Washington and of related weapons offenses. In December 2011, after this court had affirmed appellant’s convictions on direct appeal and subsequently affirmed the denial of his motion filed pursuant to D.C. Code § 23-110 (2001), 1 appellant filed a motion to vacate his convictions under the provisions of the Innocence Protection Act codified at D.C. Code § 22-4135 (2001) (the “IPA”). The trial court held an eviden-tiary hearing on the IPA motion and thereafter’ denied the motion, stating…
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