PARKER v. U.S.

Nos. 98-CF-755, 98-CO-1460.

745 A.2d 933 (2000)

Fitzgerald L. PARKER, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 10, 2000.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Kenneth H. Rosenau, Washington, DC, for appellant.

Toni B. Florence, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Wilma A. Lewis, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher, Elizabeth H. Danello, and D. Ames Jeffress, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before FARRELL, REID, and GLICKMAN, Associate Judges.


FARRELL, Associate Judge:

This appeal from convictions for distributing cocaine in a drug-free zone and enlisting a minor to distribute drugs presents chiefly a speedy trial issue resulting from the prosecutor's apparent failure to confirm a laboratory drug analysis until the day of the second scheduled trial a year after appellant's arrest, with the consequence that appellant nearly — but not, we conclude, in fact — lost the availability of two witnesses...

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