Gibson v. United States

ON PETITION FOR REHEARING

GALLAGHER, Senior Judge:

In light of the fall court’s decision in Lyons & Cooper v. United States, 683 A.2d 1066 (D.C.1996) (en banc), the Hearing Division in this ease granted rehearing of this appeal to reexamine the question whether the trial court committed reversible error by denying a request during voir dire for followup questioning of prospective jurors. A majority of the original hearing division reversed the convictions of appellants Herbert H. Gibson and Russell H. Sykes, holding that the trial court’s erroneous denial of the request frustrated appellants’…