Legal Opinion
Jones v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided April 7, 2011No. 09-CM-212PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
REID, Associate Judge:
Appellant, Andre M. Jones, appeals from his conviction for misdemeanor assault on a police officer (“APO”) in violation of D.C.Code § 22-405(b). 1 He contends that his case should be remanded to the trial court because the court may have convicted him on the basis of an invalid legal theory pertaining to noncriminal conduct. In light of (1) conflicting accounts of the encounter between the police and Mr. Jones; (2) the absence of an explicit credibility determination by the trial court; (3) the government’s three theories of Mr. Jones’s guilt, two of which may not…
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