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GIBSON v. U.S.

No. 89-113.

602 A.2d 117 (1992)

Warren H. GIBSON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 7, 1992.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Jensen E. Barber, Washington, D.C., appointed by the court, for appellant.

Steven J. McCool, Asst. U.S. Atty., with whom Jay B. Stephens, U.S. Atty., John R. Fisher, Roy W. McLeese, III, and Katherine Worthington, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, D.C., were on brief, for appellee.

Before STEADMAN, WAGNER and KING, Associate Judges.

KING, Associate Judge:

Appellant challenges, on constitutional grounds, the statutory provision declaring those previously convicted of specified drug trafficking offenses to be ineligible to invoke the addict exception1 to the mandatory-minimum sentencing requirements of the Controlled Substance Act.2 Although we have rejected constitutional challenges to other provisions of the mandatory-minimum sentencing...

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