Coreas v. United States

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Appellant Coreas was acquitted by a jury of second degree murder while armed, 1 but convicted of the lesser included offense of manslaughter while armed 2 and of carrying a pistol without a license. 3 On his first appeal, a divided panel of this court reversed his convictions, holding that prose-cutorial misconduct had denied him a fair trial. Coreas v. United States, 565 A.2d 594 (D.C.1989) (Coreas I). The court held that although no objection had been made to the prosecutor’s improper rebuttal argument until the second day of jury deliberations, “the cumulative…