Legal Opinion
Wright v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 16, 1990No. 86-1077PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
ROGERS, Chief Judge:
Appellant Samuel Wright seeks reversal of his convictions by a jury 1 in connection with two burglaries of the Video Place store on the principal ground that the trial judge abused his discretion in denying appellant’s motion to sever the December 1984 and the January 1985 burglaries. He also contends that his convictions must be reversed because the government was allowed to present evidence concerning the absent codefendant’s whereabouts during the two burglaries, and there was insufficient evidence of the crime of burglary since the government failed to prove that…
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