Kywone D. Pelzer v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
Easterly, Associate Judge:
Kywone D. Pelzer appeals his conviction after a jury trial for robbery. 1 He argues that his conviction should be reversed because the evidence was legally insufficient, and because the trial court made a number of evidentiary and instructional errors. We conclude that the evidence was sufficient to permit a reasonable juror to find Mr. Pelzer guilty of robbery, and we reject all but one of Mr. Pelzer’s other arguments— that the trial court abused its discretion when it admitted the recording of the complainant’s 911 call into evidence under the hearsay exception for…
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