Scales v. United States

KING, Associate Judge:

Louis J. Seales appeals his convictions for armed second degree murder and related weapons charges, contending the trial court committed reversible error in certain rulings involving the only eyewitness to testify at trial, Kenneth Hodge. Specifically, Scales contends that the trial court erred by: (1) admitting into evidence grand jury testimony given by Hodge about his prior identification of the appellant, where the witness had first testified at trial concerning the identification but later in part recanted that testimony; (2) not giving, sua sponte, a limiting…