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| In re Estate of Weston, No. 02-PR-799, No. 02-PR-816,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, October 9, 2003, Decided
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Overview: Trial court erred in admitting only three of five pages of a testator's will because the excluded pages, which were very dissimilar from the admitted pages, contained only two bequests and a residuary clause, which was not what the testator intended.
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| In re Patterson, Nos. 02-BG-498, 02-BG-1130,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, October 9, 2003, Decided
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Overview: Where an attorney's executed plea agreement was proof of a criminal conviction for felony theft, which was deemed to involve moral turpitude per se, the attorney was disbarred.
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| Lyons v. United States, Nos. 97-CF-1789 & 97-CF-2036,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, October 9, 2003, Decided
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Overview: Victim's show-up identification of co-defendant as person who robbed her was not unduly suggestive. Trial court's denial without a hearing of defendant's new trial motion asserting co-defendant intimidated him from testifying was abuse of discretion.
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| In re Am. V., Nos. 01-FS-211, 01-FS-212, and 01-FS-213,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, October 10, 2003, Decided
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Overview: Although District of Columbia mother's drug problems alone would not have warranted neglect adjudication, those problems and other failures to provide care her children needed justified decision to grant custody to child welfare agency.
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| Gatlin v. United States, Nos. 97-CF-1811, 97-CF-1847 and 97-CF-1929,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, October 16, 2003, Decided
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Overview: School staff had no reasonable expectation of privacy in a publicly funded charter school that would preclude police from entering to investigate a reported crime; staff was not justified in using force against police.
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| McPherson v. D.C. Hous. Auth., No. 02-CV-296,
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA COURT OF APPEALS, October 16, 2003, Decided
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Overview: Trial court erred in denying a tenant's motion to intervene in an eviction action by an agency against the tenant's deceased mother in order to challenge a default judgment; the tenant met all of the requirements of the test for intervention.
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| S.B. v. A.D.W., Case No. PS-3772-93,
SUPERIOR COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, FAMILY COURT, October 21, 2003, Decided
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Overview: A mother who had abandoned her minor child with an aunt was not entitled to child support arrears that had accumulated nor was the aunt entitled to any reimbursement of support since she voluntarily took on the child's care and actively participated with the mother in concealing the child's whereabouts from the father.
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