Legal Opinion
Settles v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 29, 1992No. 89-CF-1211PublishedCited by 22 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
Appellant, John E. Settles, appeals from his conviction of second-degree murder while armed for the shooting of his twelve-year-old nephew. 1 On appeal, appellant challenges three rulings of the trial court: (1) the trial court’s admission of evidence that appellant was “high” from ingesting drugs in the hours preceding the murder; (2) the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress the murder weapon; and (3) the trial court’s denial of a motion for mistrial based on the prosecutor’s allegedly improper appeal to the passions and prejudices of the jury in her…
2Cases cited26 opinions
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- Mincey v. ArizonaSupreme Court of the United States · 1978
- Nathan L. Drew v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1964
- Tyrone Gaither v. United States of America, Charles Tatum v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1969
- Irick v. United StatesDistrict of Columbia Court of Appeals · 1989
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3Cited by22 opinions
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