Court Opinion

ID: 9746877
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-27 14:42:12.914606+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:25:17.862159
License: Public Domain

NEWMAN, Chief Judge,
concurring:
I join the opinion of Judge Harris except for Part III. Whether, on the one hand, one reads footnote 5 of Johnson v. United States, D.C.App., 387 A.2d 1084 (1978) (en banc), as reaffirming a per se reversal rule where the government impeaches its own witness with a prior inconsistent statement and the court fails to give a limiting instruction, sua sponte, or, on the other hand, as Judge Harris does, that such a failure must be evaluated under the plain error regime of Watts v. United States, D.C.App., 362 A.2d 706 (1976) (en banc), we are in agreement that this conviction must be reversed.
KELLY, J., concurs in the result only.