Bynum v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
1Opinion of the Court
RUIZ, Associate Judge:
Appellant was convicted of possession of marijuana,1 and possession with intent to distribute crack cocaine,2 and received consecutive sentences of one year for marijuana possession and twenty to sixty years (all but ten years suspended) for possessing crack cocaine with intent to distribute. On appeal he challenges several evidentia-ry rulings that he claims prevented him from presenting evidence that he was a crack addict in order to rebut the government’s evidence that he intended to distribute crack cocaine. We reverse the conviction for possession with intent to…
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