Brandon v. United States

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Ricky Brandon appeals from the imposition of a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment for no less than twenty months and no more than five years following his conviction by a jury of distribution of cocaine. D.C.Code § 33-541(a)(l) (1988). He contends that the trial judge, Hon. George Herbert Goodrich, improperly found him automatically ineligible for sentencing under the “addict exception,” § 33-541(c)(2), because Brandon had denied making the sale in question at trial and thereafter, and had failed to acknowledge it at the time of sentencing. Although there is…