her. 37 . In a second note, the jury clarified that “[b]y ‘the act,’ we mean the beating of Ms. Dorothy Evans that resulted in her death.” 38 . Brief for Appellant Ewing at 19. 39 . Cox v. United States, 999 A.2d 63, 70 (D.C.2010) (internal quotation marks and citations omitted). 40 . See Thacker v. United States, 599 A.2d 52, 63 (D.C.1991). 41 . Dunn was sentenced to five years’ imprisonment on each arson count, to run concurrently with one another but consecutively to her sentences on the other counts of conviction. 42 . Sanchez-Rengifo v. United States, 815 A.2d 351, 355 (D.C.2002) (internal quotation marks omitted). 43 . Jenkins v. United States, 980 A.2d 421, 424 (D.C.2009) (internal quotation marks omitted). 44 . See, e.g., Gardner v. United States, 698 A.2d 990, 1003 (D.C.1997) (<HOLDING>). 45 . Pursuant to D.C.Code § 22-2104.01(b)(4)
holding a police officers illegal search of an envelope at defendants store and store clerks testimony as to defendants activities sufficiently attenuated to dissipate the connection between the two where a substantial period of time had elapsed between the two events and the clerks testimony was an act of her own free will holding that two separate incidents of rape were perpetrated against the same victim where an appreciable period of time elapsed between the incidents and intervening events occurred during the interim holding that the striking similarity between the acts alleged in the indictment and the prior incidents rendered incidents that occurred fifteen years prior to the acts alleged in the indictment relevant and admissible under rule 404b holding that specific incidents of a victims conduct are not admissible to show that the victim was the first aggxessor holding two instances of violating  148 were two offenses because thirty minutes elapsed between the two incidents and in the intervening space of time the defendant had completely calmed down and ceased his criminal activity