Legal Opinion
Price v. United States
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Decided March 2, 2000No. 98-CF-1430, 98-CF-1485PublishedCited by 12 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
GLICKMAN, Associate Judge:
In Thomas v. United States, 650 A.2d 183 (D.C.1994) (en banc), we held that in prosecutions under the District of Columbia Controlled Substances Act, codified as amended in D.C.Code § 33-501 et seq. (1998), the government need only prove a measurable rather than a usable amount of the controlled substance in question. In the present appeals, appellants challenge their convictions under D.C.Code § 33-541(a)(1) for unlawful distribution of the controlled substance heroin because, they claim, the government failed to prove the presence of a measurable amount of the…
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