District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 9/20/2012

Gorbey v. United States

Citations

54 A.3d 668
2012 WL 4120473
2012 D.C. App. LEXIS 477

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holding that the trial court “did not conduct the inquiry that Frendak envisions” where “the court did no more than confirm that appellant was, in fact, waiving the insanity defense”
finding that a small improvised explosive device without the fusing system needed to detonate it nevertheless qualified as a “weapon of mass destruction” as defined by D.C. Code § 22-3154
applying Speaks in rejecting claim that trial court misapplied the Sentencing Guidelines in imposing consecutive rather than concurrent sentences
“We accord great deference to the trial court‟s inferences from its personal observations of, and conversations with, the defendant.”
“[N]ot every manifestation of mental illness demonstrates incompetence to stand trial.” (internal quotation omitted)
Gorbey was convicted of fourteen weapons offenses, including manufacture, transfer, use, possession, or transportation of explosives for an unlawful purpose, and attempted manufacture or possession of a weapon of mass destruction

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Judges: Blackburne, Pryor, Rigsby, Thompson

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