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WILLIAMS v. U.S.

Nos. 06-CF-1586, 06-CF-1587.

966 A.2d 844 (2009)

Gualyn C. WILLIAMS and Melonee Bryant, Appellants, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided February 26, 2009.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Richard S. Stolker, Rockville, MD, for appellant Williams.

Christopher Kemmitt, Public Defender Service, with whom James Klein and Samia Fam, Public Defender Service, were on the brief, for appellant Bryant.

J.P. Cooney, Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jeffrey A. Taylor, United States Attorney, and Roy W. McLeese III, Mary B. McCord, and Sharon K. Donovan, Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Before WASHINGTON, Chief Judge, KRAMER, Associate Judge, and FARRELL, Senior Judge.

FARRELL, Senior Judge:

A jury found both appellants guilty of distributing cocaine to an undercover police officer. On appeal, their primary argument (indeed, Williams' sole contention) is that the admission of a DEA-7 chemist's report identifying the recovered substance as cocaine, without corresponding testimony by the chemist, violated Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36, 124 S.Ct. 1354, 158 L.Ed.2d 177 (2004), as applied...

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