Legal Opinion

Williams v. United States

District of Columbia Court of Appeals

Decided June 27, 2019No. 13-CF-1312PublishedCited by 20 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

Concurring opinion by Associate Judge EASTERLY at page 746.

Separate statement in concurrence by Senior Judge NEBEKER at page 746.

Easterly, Associate Judge:

Marlon Williams seeks rehearing of our initial decision in his case, Williams v. United States (Williams I ), 130 A.3d 343 (D.C. 2016), in which we rejected his unpreserved challenge to the trial court's admission of opinion testimony from a firearms and toolmark examiner that markings on the bullets recovered from the decedent's car were "unique"; that, when the gun recovered from Mr. Williams's apartment was test-fired, the bullets had…

2Cases cited26 opinions

  1. Strickland v. WashingtonSupreme Court of the United States · 1984
  2. Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, Inc.Supreme Court of the United States · 1993
  3. United States v. OlanoSupreme Court of the United States · 1993
  4. Kotteakos v. United StatesSupreme Court of the United States · 1946
  5. Frye v. United StatesCourt of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · 1923

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