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PORTILLO v. U.S.

No. 90-CF-1354.

609 A.2d 687 (1992)

Cristino A. PORTILLO, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided June 23, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth H. Rosenau, Washington, D.C., appointed by the court, for appellant.

Kristan Peters-Hamlin, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., and John R. Fisher and Thomas J. Tourish, Jr., Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

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

FERREN, Associate Judge:

A jury found appellant, Cristino A. Portillo, guilty of possession of cocaine with intent to distribute, D.C.Code § 33-541(a) (1988 and 1991 Supp.). Appellant challenges his conviction on the grounds that (1) the prosecutor's closing argument improperly appealed to the prejudice and racial or ethnic bias of the jury, and (2) the prosecutor's questions about appellant's status as an illegal alien deprived him of a fair trial. Although...

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