Jones v. United States

STEADMAN, Senior Judge:

Appellant Michael Jones was convicted in a jury trial of a number of charges relating to two rapes which occurred in the same Washington, D.C. neighborhood in the Spring of 1985. More than fifteen years later, a motions judge denied, without a hearing, the latest in a series of motions filed by appellant in which he alleged, pursuant to D.C.Code § 23-110 (2001), that his trial counsel’s failure to interview and call at trial two critical alibi witnesses constituted ineffective assistance of counsel. Appellant argues that the motions judge erred in denying a hearing on…