Legal Opinion
Day v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided September 19, 1996No. 95-CM-675PublishedCited by 14 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
RUIZ, Associate Judge.
Appellant, Curtis Day, was convicted of simple assault in violation of D.C.Code § 22-504 (1996) in a bench trial before the Judge John H. Bayly, Jr. Day was sentenced to four months confinement, execution of sentence suspended as to all but two months in jail, followed by one year of supervised probation and ten dollars in court costs. Day appeals on grounds that he was denied his constitutional right to be tried by a jury. He argues that since assault was a crime which was jury-triable under the common law, the Constitution protects his right to a jury in an assault…
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