Maura v. United States

FERREN, Associate Judge:

After a jury trial, appellant was convicted of unlawful entry, D.C.Code § 22-3102 (1981). The court sentenced him to a suspended sentence of five days and placed him on probation for one year, with probation to end when appellant completed twenty hours of community service. The trial court allowed the prosecution, over defense objection, to ask each of appellant’s character witnesses whether he had heard of appellant’s arrest for attempted robbery in 1986. Appellant claims the trial court abused its discretion in allowing these questions and, even more specifically, in…