MITCHELL v. U.S.

No. 95-CM-1256.

683 A.2d 111 (1996)

Lonzo MITCHELL, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided August 22, 1996.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donald W. Whitehead, Jr., Ellicott City, appointed by this court, for appellant.

Ronald W. Sharpe, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Eric H. Holder, Jr., United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher, Elizabeth Trosman, and Nancy B. Bukas, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WAGNER, Chief Judge, and SCHWELB and REID, Associate Judges.


REID, Associate Judge:

After a bench trial, appellant Lonzo Mitchell was convicted of possession of heroin, in violation of D.C.Code § 33-541(d) (1993 Repl.). He was sentenced to one hundred and twenty days of incarceration, with work release from five a.m. to four p.m. Mondays through Fridays. He filed a timely appeal. Mitchell contends (1) the trial court improperly denied his right to a jury trial because possession...

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