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Title: Eddie J. Mathis v. United States
Author : Court of Appeals of District of Columbia
Release Date : January 20, 1986
Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
Pages : * pages
Size : 61 KB

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PAIR, Senior Judge: Following as lengthy jury trial, appellant was found guilty as charged of first-degree murder while armed. 1 Appellant, through counsel and pro se, now asserts several grounds for reversal of his conviction: (1) denial of a motion for acquittal on the basis of insufficiency of the evidence of identification; (2) the security procedures and devices used at trial deprived appellant of a fair trial; (3) improper admission of evidence of other crimes; (4) several instances of prosecutorial misconduct during closing argument' and (5) due process violations when the trial court failed to inform itself whether a defense witness properly invoked the Fifth Amendment and failed to address the immunity for the witness. Finding the allegations of prosecutorial misconduct of merit, we reverse.