Legal Opinion
Abdulshakur v. District of Columbia
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided April 25, 1991No. 88-1134PublishedCited by 33 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
On June 29,1988, following a bench trial, Yasmeen Abdulshakur was convicted of three counts of welfare fraud in violation of D.C.Code § 3-218.1 (1988). On appeal, she presents three principal contentions for our consideration. The first, which was her sole defense below, was that the judge should have granted her motion for judgment of acquittal (MJOA) because the evidence was insufficient, according to Ms. Abdulshakur, to prove that she possessed the requisite intent to defraud the District of Columbia. Her second, made for the first time on appeal, is that the…
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