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BATTLE v. U.S.

Nos. 97-CF-1644, 97-CF-1775.

754 A.2d 312 (2000)

Shannon J. BATTLE, Roy Tatum, Jr., Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 1, 2000.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

M. Elizabeth Kent, Washington, DC, appointed by this court, for appellant Battle.

Peter H. Meyers, appointed by this court, for appellant Tatum.

Elizabeth H. Carroll, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher and Roy W. McLeese, III, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FARRELL, REID, and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges.

FARRELL, Associate Judge.

In this appeal from appellants' joint murder convictions arising from the shooting death of Ronald Thomas, the primary issue concerns the trial court's exclusion of evidence proffered by Battle to show that another person so closely resembling him that he had been mistaken for Battle committed a similar (non-fatal) shooting two weeks before the murder with one of the same pistols used in the murder. After originally charging Battle with the...

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