Blunt v. United States

FARRELL, Associate Judge, Retired:

Appellant (hereafter Blunt) was found guilty by a jury of armed voluntary manslaughter and possession of a prohibited weapon, both arising from the death of Robert Ford. On appeal, Blunt first argues that the trial judge erroneously allowed a prosecution witness to explain that she was afraid to testify because she had been “stabbed nine times and almost lost my life by testifying” — inferentially to the grand jury in this case — when no evidence linked Blunt to the stabbings. The judge immediately told the jury that there was “no evidence that Mr. Blunt…