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DORSEY v. U.S.

No. 06-CF-1099.

60 A.3d 1171 (2013)

James DORSEY, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 3, 2013.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Samia Fam , Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Mikel-Meredith Weidman , Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant.

Elizabeth H. Danello , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Ronald C. Machen Jr. , United States Attorney, Roy W. McLeese III , Assistant United States Attorney at the time the brief was filed, and Mary B. McCord and Jonathan W. Haray , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, GLICKMAN, BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, THOMPSON, and OBERLY, Associate Judges, and REID and RUIZ, Senior Judges.

GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:

Appellant James Dorsey was convicted after a jury trial of assaulting and robbing an elderly street vendor.1 The videotape of Dorsey's confession, introduced at his trial by the prosecution in its case-in-chief, was the most compelling evidence against him. In this appeal, Dorsey contends the trial court erred in admitting the confession.

While he was in police custody, Dorsey endured a grueling overnight...

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