District of Columbia Court of Appeals· 10/27/1988

Gray v. United States

Citations

549 A.2d 347
1988 D.C. App. LEXIS 193
1988 WL 112833

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“[A] defendant is entitled upon request to an instruction on any issue fairly raised by the evidence, regardless of whether it is consistent with the defense theory of the case or the defendant’s testimony.”
“When we have rejected a claim that a certain defense-requested instruction should have been given, we have done so . . . because the instructions which the court actually gave adequately presented the defense theory. . . .”
“Although we need not adopt ... a per se rule that the failure to give an alibi instruction when one is warranted can never be harmless error, we find it difficult to imagine a case in which such an error could possibly be harmless”
“failure to give ... (the instruction) is reversible error”

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Judges: Pryor, Terry, Gallagher

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