BENNETT v. U.S.

No. 90-122.

597 A.2d 24 (1991)

Terry M. BENNETT, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided September 17, 1991.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Robert M. Hausman, Washington, D.C., for appellant.

Teresa A. Howie, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., John R. Fisher, Elizabeth Trosman, and Dolan L. Garrett, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on the brief, for appellee.

Before ROGERS, Chief Judge, FERREN and FARRELL, Associate Judges.


ROGERS, Chief Judge:

Appellant Terry M. Bennett appeals his conviction by a jury of possession with intent to distribute cocaine, D.C.Code § 33-541(a)(1) (1989), on the ground that the trial judge erred in permitting the government to elicit evidence of appellant's prior arrest (and possible pending trial) for the same offense at the same location only three weeks before the charged offense. Because we are unable to agree with the government that appellant was...

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