Mayfield v. United States

STEADMAN, Associate Judge:

In a joint trial, a jury convicted appellant of premeditated first degree murder while armed under an aiding and abetting theory, but convicted the actual killer only of second-degree murder while armed. On direct appeal, appellant’s conviction was affirmed. A subsequent denial by the trial court of his first motion under D.C.Code § 23-110 (1989) was also affirmed by us.

Now before us is an appeal from the denial of a second motion to vacate judgment pursuant to § 23-110. In that motion, appellant claimed that he was denied due process because the conviction of the…