Legal Opinion
West v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided November 13, 1991No. 89-1212PublishedCited by 18 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
Ronald West appeals from his convictions on nineteen counts arising out of four separate incidents over a two-month period in the spring of 1988. In each case, a woman was robbed at gunpoint of her Automatic Teller Machine (“ATM”) bank card or her VISA card. In three of the cases, the woman was sexually molested. In one of the cases, the woman was killed. Appellant raises two principal arguments on appeal: 1) that the offenses should not have been joined, or, if properly joined, should have been severed; 2) that his dual convictions for kidnapping and rape in each of…
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