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- Title: Williams v. United States
- Author : District of Columbia Court of Appeals.
- Release Date : January 16, 2004
- Genre: Law,Books,Professional & Technical,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 74 KB
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Defendant, Ralph Duonnolo, appeals his Superior Court jury convictions of murder in the first degree and possession of a deadly weapon during the commission of a felony, asserting errors of the Trial Judge by: admitting inflammatory, irrelevant and prejudicial testimony of events occurring shortly before the murder; failing to instruct the jury on the law of extreme emotional distress; requiring defendants wife to testify; permitting defendant to be viewed by the jury panel in handcuffs; admitting an empty pistol holder into evidence, it being irrelevant to a murder by stabbing; admitting evidence unlawfully obtained as a result of illegal seizure of defendants automobile; and permitting testimony of defendants refusal to take a lie detector test. Finding no error in the Trial Judges failure to instruct the jury on the law of extreme emotional distress and no merit to defendants other contentions, we affirm.