Legal Opinion
Baldwin v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided February 27, 1987No. 86-112PublishedCited by 6 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEBEKER, Associate Judge:
This appeal from a shoplifting conviction after a nonjury trial, D.C.Code § 22-3813 (1986 Supp.), presents sufficiency of evidence questions as to whether the store-owned goods were the “personal property of another” and whether appellant’s concealment of the goods and subsequent abandonment of those goods in the same area, after appellant first made an attempt to leave the area, consummated the offense. 1 Appellant also attempts to challenge as plain error the trial court’s permitting the government to proceed without an opening statement. We affirm.
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