Legal Opinion
Williams v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided October 10, 2013No. 11-CF-526PublishedCited by 11 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BECKWITH, Associate Judge:
Two nights after a double murder in northwest Washington, D.C., police arrested appellant De’Andre Williams near the site of the killings, reporting that Mr. Williams had just dropped a revolver and run from officers investigating an unrelated crime. A federal jury soon acquitted Williams of the resulting charge that he, as a convicted felon, possessed the revolver— but that did not settle the issue whether police in fact caught him with a gun that night. That is because the gun, a forensic examiner determined, could have been the murder weapon. At Williams’s…
2Cases cited45 opinions
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