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SIMMS v. UNITED STATES

No. 17-CM-1137.

244 A.3d 213 (2021)

Shawn SIMMS, Appellant, v. UNITED STATES, Appellee.

District of Columbia Court of Appeals.

Decided January 21, 2021.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Anna B. Scanlon for appellant. Rupa Ranga Puttagunta , Chevy Chase, MD, was on the brief for appellant.

Jillian D. Willis , Assistant United States Attorney, with whom Jessie K. Liu , United States Attorney at the time, and Elizabeth Trosman , Chrisellen R. Kolb , and Colleen Kukowski , Assistant United States Attorneys, were on the brief, for appellee.

Dissenting opinion by Senior Judge Fisher at page 223.

This appeal from a conviction for unlawfully distributing marijuana concerns the effect of changes wrought in the District of Columbia's controlled substances law by the Legalization of Possession of Minimal Amounts of Marijuana for Personal Use Initiative of 2014, D.C. Law 20-153 (hereinafter referred to as the "Legalization...

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