Beach v. United States

In this appeal of his conviction for possession of a controlled substance, 1 appellant asserts as reversible error the trial court’s rejection of a proffered stipulation as to what constitutes a “usable amount” of heroin and its admission of expert testimony on that question. As we are unpersuaded by appellant’s contentions, we affirm his conviction.

The testimony at trial was that on October 31, 1981, two undercover policemen approached appellant in the 1900 block of 9th Street, Northwest, and gave him forty dollars in prerecorded bills in exchange for an envelope of heroin. Within minutes, a…