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BUTLER v. U.S.

No. 93-CF-107.

646 A.2d 331 (1994)

Charles BUTLER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 15, 1994.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth Rosenau, Washington, DC, for appellant.

Steven D. Mellin, with whom Eric H. Holder, Jr., U.S. Atty., John R. Fisher, Thomas C. Black, and Rachel Adelman-Pierson, Asst. U.S. Attys., Washington, DC, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FERREN, STEADMAN and FARRELL, Associate Judges.

FERREN, Associate Judge:

A jury convicted appellant of distributing cocaine. See D.C.Code § 33-541(a)(1) (1993). Appellant challenges his conviction primarily on the ground that the trial court's deliberate modifications of the standard "reasonable doubt" instruction—including omission of one of the principal definitional sentences— amounted to constitutional error requiring reversal. We conclude that the court's revisions of the standard...

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