WILLIAMS v. UNITED STATES

Nos. 81-712, 81-1531 and 81-1535.

483 A.2d 292 (1984)

Ronald A. WILLIAMS (No. 81-712), Leon Johnson (No. 81-1531), and William L. Johnson, Jr. (No. 81-1535), Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided October 2, 1984.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

James Klein, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., with whom A. Franklin Burgess, Jr., Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., at the time the briefs were filed, William J. Mertens, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., at the time the briefs were filed, and Linda Jacobson, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., were on the briefs, for appellant Ronald A. Williams. Elizabeth J. Branda, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., also entered an appearance for appellant Ronald A. Williams.

Calvin Steinmetz, Washington, D.C., appointed by the court, for appellant Leon Johnson.

R. Kenneth Mundy, Washington, D.C., for appellant William L. Johnson, Jr.

Regina C. McGranery, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., at the time the brief was filed, Michael W. Farrell and E. Thomas Roberts, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee. John A. Terry, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., at the time the brief was filed, also entered an appearance for appellee.

Before MACK and PRYOR, Associate Judges, and KERN, Associate Judge, Retired.


PER CURIAM:

A jury convicted appellants of first-degree burglary while armed, D.C. Code §§ 22-1801(a), -3202 (1981), and felony murder while armed, id. §§ 22-2401, -3202.1 Appellants argue that reversible error attended the admission of prior consistent statements of three government witnesses and that the prosecutor's reference to the death penalty during closing argument constituted misconduct necessitating...

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