District of Columbia Court of Appeals January 20, 2011, 07-CF-1036 (Evans v. United States)

BELSON, Senior Judge:

Appellant Herbert Evans challenges his conviction for aggravated assault while armed (AAWA),1 arguing that the trial court abused its discretion in declining to grant a mistrial or, in the alternative, in declining to give a curative instruction, to deal with a comment the government made in its opening statement about evidence that was not later adduced at trial.