Legal Opinion
Leak v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided August 3, 2000No. 98-CF-570PublishedCited by 27 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
Appellant picked up and rode away on a bicycle that had fallen to the street while the true owner, wearing a bicycle helmet, and an assailant were struggling close by. He was convicted of robbery. On appeal, he argues that the trial court erred in refusing to instruct the jury on the lesser-included offense of theft and that the denial of his request for a continuance to retain new counsel on the eve of trial was an abuse of discretion. Finding no error on either basis, we affirm.
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The standards for our review are well-established. “A lesser-included offense…
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