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Coleman v. United States

The D.C. Court of Appeals affirmed in part and vacated in part convictions entered by the D.C. Superior Court in a criminal matter involving the shooting deaths of two teenage boys. The defendants, who were jointly tried before a jury, were convicted of multiple criminal offenses. As to one defendant, the appeals court affirmed the convictions. With respect to the other defendant, it affirmed his conviction for carrying a dangerous weapon but vacated his convictions for second-degree murder and possession of a firearm during a crime of violence. It found that the trial judge erroneously instructed the jury about the intent required to sustain those guilty verdicts for an aider and abettor.

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Argued October 24, 2006

Before RUIZ and KRAMER, Associate Judges, and NEBEKER, Senior Judge.

This case involves the shooting deaths of two teenage boys, Mylan Lucas and Hakim Williams, in July of 2000, in Southeast Washington. Quincy Jones and Antoine Coleman were jointly tried for the murders before a jury. The jury convicted Coleman of two counts of first-degree premeditated murder, one count of carrying a dangerous weapon (CDW), one count of possession of a firearm during a crime of violence (PFCV), and one count of obstruction of justice. Jones was convicted of two counts of second-degree murder, as lesser included offenses of the first-degree premeditated murder charges, one count of PFCV, and one count of CDW. We affirm Coleman’s convictions. With respect to Jones, we affirm his conviction for CDW but vacate his convictions for second-degree murder and PFCV because the trial judge erroneously instructed the jury as to the intent required to sustain those guilty verdicts as an aider and abettor.

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