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TAYLOR v. UNITED STATES

No. 82-1009.

471 A.2d 999 (1983)

James R. TAYLOR, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided December 29, 1983.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

John A. Shorter, Jr., Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Ava J. Abramowitz, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., with whom Stanley S. Harris, U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., at the time the brief was filed, Michael W. Farrell, and Elliott R. Warren, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before KERN and BELSON, Associate Judges, and PAIR, Associate Judge, Retired.

PAIR, Associate Judge, Retired:

Appellant seeks a reversal of his conviction of unlawful possession of a narcotic substance, D.C.Code § 33-502(a) (1981), claiming that the trial court: (1) deprived him of his Sixth Amendment right to a speedy trial, and (2) unduly restricted his use of peremptory challenges during voir dire. We affirm.

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Although arrested on November 12, 1979, appellant was not put on trial until June 30, 1982. Consequently...

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