Legal Opinion
Byrd v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 18, 1985No. 84-941PublishedCited by 30 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
TERRY, Associate Judge:
Appellant was convicted of armed robbery 1 and obstruction of justice. 2 On appeal he contends that the trial court erred in denying his motion to sever the two offenses for trial and his motion to suppress the identification testimony of the robbery victim. We reject both contentions and affirm the judgment of conviction.
I
A small neighborhood grocery was robbed at gunpoint. Mrs. Hee Sun Kang, who owned the store along with her husband, was making change for a customer, Kelvin Waller, when two men came into the store. One of them held a gun on Mrs. Kang, while the other…
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