Lee v. United States

NEWMAN, Chief Judge:

Tried by a jury and convicted of grand larceny, attempted unauthorized use of a motor vehicle, and petit larceny, 1 appellant contends on appeal that given his proper and timely discovery demand under Super. Ct.Cr.R. 16, the government’s failure to disclose, until trial, the recovery of latent palm prints on an automobile in the vicinity of the larceny violates that rule as well as the due process requirements of Brady v. Maryland, 373 U.S. 83, 83 S.Ct. 1194, 10 L.Ed.2d 215 (1963). Finding no substantial prejudice to appellant’s rights from the government’s conceded…