Legal Opinion · Concurring in part, dissenting in part

ALAZAJUAN M. GRAY and CLIFTON SMITH v. UNITED STATES.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided October 20, 2016No. 13-CF-854+Published

1Concurring in part, dissenting in partBeckwith, Associate Judge

No witness ever identified Alazajuan Gray as one of the men who robbed Katherine Takai, and innumerable young black men on the Metro that day would have shared the traits that Mr. Gray himself shared only roughly with Ms. Takai’s description of the robbers. I am unwilling to conclude that the additional evidence that Mr. Gray was hanging out with—and causing trouble with—one of the other robbers an hour later and miles away from the Takai robbery and that Mr. Gray a week earlier committed a very different kind of robbery with this other robber renders the evidence sufficient to support his…

2Cases cited24 opinions

  1. Anderson v. Liberty Lobby, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1986
  2. Estelle v. McGuireSupreme Court of the United States · 1991
  3. Old Chief v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1997
  4. Hoffa v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1966
  5. Michelson v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1949

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