United States v. Fairnot

UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT FOR THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA UNITED STATES OF AMERICA v. Criminal Action No. 23-24 (JEB) JERMAINE FAIRNOT, Defendant. MEMORANDUM OPINION Awaiting retrial on an eight-count gun-and-drug indictment, Defendant Jermaine Fairnot moves to dismiss the case against him on two grounds. First, he contends that chain-of-custody issues and weight discrepancies concerning the phencyclidine recovered from his car — which was introduced into evidence at his first trial — render that PCP evidence inadmissible. Second, he maintains that the Government failed to preserve video…