Legal Opinion
Fields v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 14, 1997No. 93-CF-492, 93-CF-522, 96-CO-738PublishedCited by 24 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge.
Appellant Maurice L. Fields was convicted of multiple offenses arising out of two armed carjackings that occurred in February 1991. A photo array introduced as an exhibit was stored at the back of the courtroom during the overnight period following the first day of jury deliberations. The next day the photo array was gone. Fields contends that his due process right to a fair trial was violated by this loss of the photo array. We reject this argument, as well as all the other more conventional issues raised before us, and affirm.
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A. The February 18 Incident
On February…
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