Legal Opinion
Martin v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 30, 1991No. 89-885, 89-1523PublishedCited by 49 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
SCHWELB, Associate Judge:
Life can be cheap on the streets of our city. On the evening of March 26, 1988, Stephen Brandon jumped out of the back seat of an automobile which was being driven on Wheeler Road in southeast Washington by appellant Tyrone Martin and fired a handgun at Clayton (Ricky) Gray and Marvin Pegues. Gray was struck in the chest and died shortly afterwards; Pe-gues escaped unharmed.
Brandon and Martin were charged with the crimes. The prosecution’s theory was that Brandon, who was twenty-one years old, was the principal, and that Martin, who was forty-one, and who was related…
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