Legal Opinion
Rider v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided December 30, 1996No. 94-CF-1587PublishedCited by 10 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
STEADMAN, Associate Judge:
Appellant David Rider was convicted of first-degree premeditated murder while armed for the beating to death of Kenneth Love, his acknowledged “sugar daddy,” in the latter’s apartment in the Kennedy-Warren complex at 3133 Connecticut Ave., N.W., in the early hours of December 19, 1992. 1 After finding as an aggravating circumstance that the murder was “especially heinous, atrocious, and cruel,” the trial court sentenced appellant to life imprisonment without possibility of parole in accordance with D.C.Code § 22-2404.1.
The principal issues on appeal relate to Rider’s…
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