Legal Opinion
Cox v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 19, 1985No. 82-830PublishedCited by 44 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BELSON, Associate Judge:
A jury found appellant guilty of eight counts arising out of two separate sexual assaults and his later possession of a weapon. 1 Appellant challenges his convictions relating to the first two incidents on the grounds that the trial judge improperly refused to sever the counts arising respectively from the two sexual assault incidents and that the prosecutor’s closing argument denied appellant his right to a fair trial. We affirm.
I
We will set forth the facts in some detail because we will later weigh the evidence of guilt as part of a harmless error analysis. The first…
2Cases cited19 opinions
- Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
- Nathan L. Drew v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1964
- Arnold v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1976
- George P. Bradley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
- Sherer v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1983
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3Cited by44 opinions
- Watson v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1987
- Arnold v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1986
- Newman v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1997
- Settles v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1987
- Taylor v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1992
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