Legal Opinion
Keys v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 22, 2001No. 98-CF-857PublishedCited by 9 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:
Appellant Breond Keys contends that his convictions for first degree burglary, assault and other offenses must be reversed on the principal grounds that the prosecutor elicited perjury from the complainant after the trial court erroneously overruled the complainant’s assertion of a Fifth Amendment privilege not to testify. We hold that Keys is not entitled to relief. The prosecutor engaged in no misconduct, and Keys lacks standing to challenge the ruling on the witness’s claim of privilege.
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Breond Keys began dating Euell Washington, the complainant, in 1993. Over the…
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