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RANSOM v. U.S.

No. 07-CO-129.

947 A.2d 1127 (2008)

Otis L. RANSOM, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided May 1, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Patrick T. Hand, appointed by the court, was on the brief for appellant.

Jeffrey A. Taylor, United States Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III, Elizabeth Trosman, Sherri L. Berthong, and Perham Gorji (a member of the Delaware Bar), Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judge, and FERREN and STEADMAN, Senior Judges.

FERREN, Senior Judge:

Otis L. Ransom sold an undercover police officer three bags of heroin. After a two-day jury trial, he was convicted of distributing heroin within 1,000 feet of a Drug-Free Zone, D.C.Code §§ 48-904.01(a)(1), 904.07a (2001), and sentenced to prison for fourteen months, followed by five years of supervised release. On direct appeal his conviction was affirmed.1 Ransom also filed a Motion for New Trial Based...

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