Legal Opinion

Frederick v. United States

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided February 23, 1984No. 82-1156PublishedCited by 2 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

PRYOR, Associate Judge:

Appellant’s first trial on four counts of armed robbery, D.C.Code §§ 22-2901, -3202 (1981), ended in a mistrial. The jury found him guilty as charged after a second trial on two of the counts. He asserts that the prosecutor’s improper impeachment of his alibi witnesses so tainted the verdict as to require reversal.1 We affirm.

*889The testimony adduced at trial revealed that Marion Fleichman and Michael Taylor were working at a gas station in Northwest Washington early in the evening of January 6, 1981. Fleichman, seated at a desk in the small, well-lighted station office,…

2Cases cited9 opinions

  1. Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  2. Watts v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1976
  3. United States v. Joseph E. SmithCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1975
  4. Kenneth Jones v. United States of America, Willis Campbell, Jr. v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1964
  5. Roland A. Corley v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1966

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3Cited by2 opinions

  1. Commonwealth v. LugoMassachusetts Supreme Judicial Court · 1990
  2. Perritt v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1994

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