Court Opinion

ID: 9639145
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-22 16:05:49.417561+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T18:10:13.003326
License: Public Domain

NEWMAN, Associate Judge,
concurring:
I join the opinion of Judge Belson in all respects save one, and write separately only to highlight an additional area of concern which I have. I have serious doubt as to whether second-degree murder is a lesser included offense of felony murder. See Towles v. United States, 496 A.2d 560, slip op. at 7, n. 6 (D.C. July 25, 1985) (vacated by en banc order dated October 1, 1985 when the court decided to rehear en banc). I have the same “substantial doubt” expressed by Judge Ferren in his dissent on this issue in Towles.