COPELAND v. UNITED STATES

No. 20-CM-52.

271 A.3d 213 (2022)

Laffette COPELAND, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 17, 2022.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Adrian Madsen for appellant.

Mark Hobel , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Michael R. Sherwin , Acting United States Attorney at the time, and Elizabeth Trosman , Suzanne Grealy Curt , and Andy Wang , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before Blackburne-Rigsby, Chief Judge, Glickman, Associate Judge, and Thompson, Senior Judge.


Following a bench trial, appellant Laffette Copeland was found guilty of simple assault. She makes several arguments as to why she is entitled to relief from her conviction and/or sentence. First, she argues that the trial court erred in ruling that video footage of the incident was not in the government's possession, custody...

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