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BRANDON v. UNITED STATES

No. 87-720.

553 A.2d 640 (1989)

Ricky BRANDON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 27, 1989.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Deborah A. Trevino, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Jennifer P. Lyman, Public Defender Service, Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellant.

Roberto Iraola, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell, Helen M. Bollwerk, and Robertson T. Park, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before STEADMAN and SCHWELB, Associate Judges, and PRYOR, Senior Judge.

SCHWELB, Associate Judge:

Ricky Brandon appeals from the imposition of a mandatory minimum sentence of imprisonment for no less than twenty months and no more than five years following his conviction by a jury of distribution of cocaine. D.C.Code § 33-541(a)(1) (1988). He contends that the trial judge, Hon. George Herbert Goodrich, improperly found him automatically ineligible for sentencing under the "addict exception," § 33-541(c)(2), because Brandon had...

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