JONES v. U.S.

No. 86-31.

548 A.2d 35 (1988)

Nathaniel JONES, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 9, 1988.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Matthew C. Leefer, for appellant.

Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Joseph E. diGenova, U.S. Atty., at the time the briefs were filed, and Michael W. Farrell, Elizabeth Trosman, Washington, D.C., and Sherri L. Berthrong, Asst. U.S. Attys., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN, ROGERS, and STEADMAN, Associate Judges.


FERREN, Associate Judge:

A jury convicted appellant Nathaniel Jones, Jr., of possession of cocaine and of heroin with intent to distribute each. D.C. Code § 33-541(a)(1) (1988 Repl.). He now appeals, contending the trial court erred in admitting certain testimony by the government's narcotics expert and in admitting rebuttal testimony about the positive results of his drug tests using the so-called EMIT system, without providing expert testimony that EMIT has...

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