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BENTON v. U.S.

Nos. 99-CF-524, 01-CO-1279.

815 A.2d 371 (2003)

Vincent BENTON, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 23, 2003.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Donna L. Biderman, for appellant.

David B. Goodhand, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Roscoe C. Howard, United States Attorney, and John R. Fisher, Elizabeth Trosman, and Patricia A. Hefferman, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Timothy P. O'Toole, with whom James Klein, Samia Fam, Washington, DC, and Corrine Beckwith, were on the brief, for amicus curiae the Public Defender Service.

Before FARRELL, REID, and WASHINGTON, Associate Judges.

FARRELL, Associate Judge:

Benton appeals from his conviction for distributing cocaine on the ground that the government failed to disclose at trial that a police witness, Detective Johnny St. Valentine Brown, who testified as an expert on the chain of custody of recovered drugs, had falsified his credentials as an expert in other criminal trials. We rejected a claim of prejudice resulting from Brown's perjury as to his qualifications in Whitley v. United States...

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