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TUCKER v. U.S.

No. 87-931.

571 A.2d 797 (1990)

Stanley M. TUCKER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided March 14, 1990.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Dennis M. Hart, Washington, D.C., appointed by this court, was on the brief for appellant.

Virginia C. Veltrop, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and Michael W. Farrell, Asst. U.S. Atty. at the time the brief was filed, and Mona Mack, Asst. U.S. Atty., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, TERRY, Associate Judge, and REILLY, Senior Judge.

REILLY, Senior Judge:

Before us is an appeal from a conviction by a jury of the offense of distribution of cocaine. D.C.Code § 33-541(a)(1) (1988 Repl.). In urging reversal, appellant assigns four different rulings of the trial court as error. In our opinion, only one of these contentions raises a substantial issue, viz., the denial of a motion for continuance grounded upon the unavailability of an important defense witness on the scheduled day of the...

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