Legal Opinion
United States v. Xavier Brooks
Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
Decided June 19, 1992No. 91-3235PublishedCited by 103 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
Opinion for the Court filed by Circuit Judge WILLIAMS.
STEPHEN F. WILLIAMS, Circuit Judge:
A jury found Xavier Brooks guilty of various drug charges in October 1990. 1 About six weeks after that trial, police officer Christie Hoyle, the government’s chief witness, was fatally shot in the apartment of a fellow officer, David Rowland, evidently with her own service revolver. Later (and apparently without knowledge of the shooting), the judge granted a motion for a new trial, explaining that he was troubled by discrepancies in the testimony, by behavior of the defendant that seemed not to match…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Ohio v. RobertsSupreme Court of the United States · 1980
- United States v. NixonSupreme Court of the United States · 1974
- Pennsylvania v. RitchieSupreme Court of the United States · 1987
- Moore v. IllinoisSupreme Court of the United States · 1972
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3Cited by103 opinions
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- United States v. Antone R. White, A/K/A ToneCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1997
- United States v. Lai-Moi Leung and Seow Ming ChoonCourt of Appeals for the Second Circuit · 1994
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