District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 1/11/1991

Gray v. United States

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585 A.2d 164
1991 D.C. App. LEXIS 12
1991 WL 1628

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holding that as to three separate shots into a dwelling, each shot constituted a separate offense
holding that when a defendant fired three shots through a screen door, seeing three children, “separate crimes were committed, and separate sentences were appropriate[,]” although only one child was struck by a bullet
firing three shots at close range in the direction of three children was sufficient to prove a specific intent to kill each of them
affirming trial court’s increase to sentence 10 because originally-imposed sentence “was obviously illegal”
finding sufficient evidence for inference that appellant had a specific intent to kill where he fired three shots from a double-barreled shotgun through a screen door in the direction of three children, twenty to thirty feet away
―Intent can rarely be proved directly, and must often be discerned from the surrounding circumstances.‖

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Judges: Schwelb and Wagner, Associate Judges, and Reilly, Senior Judge

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