Howard v. United States

REID, Associate Judge:

After a bench trial, appellant Robert J. Howard was convicted of one count of unlawful possession of a controlled substance (marijuana), in violation of D.C.Code § 48-904.01(d) (2001). He filed a timely notice of appeal challenging the trial court’s denial of his motion to suppress evidence, the sufficiency of the evidence, and the trial court’s denial of his motion to require the government to produce for examination at trial the chemist who prepared the chemical analysis of the substances which the police seized from his person and from the ground.

After we affirmed the…