Legal Opinion
Johnson v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided January 31, 1979PublishedCited by 771 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
NEWMAN, Chief Judge:
Appellants, seeking reversal of their convictions for kidnapping, robbery, sodomy, assault, and attempted murder, advance numerous claims of reversible error. Concluding that the trial court committed reversible error in denying appellants’ motions for severance, we need not — and thus, do not— consider their other contentions with one exception. 1 In section I we set forth the relevant evidence and trial court proceedings. In section II we discuss the nature of those determinations committed to the trial court’s discretion and reviewable for abuse of its exercise. In…
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