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SPEED v. U.S.

No. 88-101.

562 A.2d 124 (1989)

Jonathan SPEED, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided July 18, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Blaise Supler, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein, and Jennifer P. Lyman, of the Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Patricia L. Petty, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., Michael W. Farrell, Asst. U.S. Atty., at the time of argument, and Elizabeth Trosman, Patrice I. Kopistansky, and Saul M. Pilchen, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, FERREN, Associate Judge, and KERN, Senior Judge.

KERN, Senior Judge:

The issue in this appeal is whether the trial court properly instructed the jurors before they found appellant guilty, as charged, of simple assault upon the complainant,1 a Metro Transit police officer. We hold that the instruction the court gave did not fully instruct the jury either on appellant's right of self-defense against this particular complainant or on the government's burden to disprove his self-defense...

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