Jones v. United States

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

A jury found appellant guilty of second-degree murder while armed, a lesser-included offense of the charged crime of armed first-degree murder. Evidence permitted the jury to find beyond a reasonable doubt that Jones had shot Kevin Jackson to death on December 2, 1997.

Jones’s principal argument on appeal is that the trial judge erred in giving the model anti-deadlock instruction adopted by the court in Winters v. United States, 317 A.2d 530 (D.C.1974) (en banc), after the judge had charged the jury before deliberations on the “attitude and conduct of jurors” in words…