Opinion

Washington v. United States

  • 619 A.2d 30
  • 1992 D.C. App. LEXIS 328
  • 1992 WL 387511
Court
District of Columbia Court of Appeals
Filed
Dec 30, 1992
Status
Published
Author
King
On the bench
Belson, Ferren, King
Cited by
3 cases
Authority
More cited than 19.4%

The opinion

KING, Associate Judge,

concurring:

I join the majority opinion in every respect except for the final sentence of footnote 3 which expresses a preference for a jury instruction defining the term usable amount. See Thomas v. United States, 619 A.2d 20, 27 (D.C.1992). While I have no objection to such an instruction, if the usable amount requirement is retained, I think the more prudent course is the one suggested by Judge Sullivan, in his separate opinion in Thomas, supra, at 29-30 , which calls for a reevaluation, by the en banc court, of the usable amount requirement. 1 See also Wishop v. United States, 531 A.2d 1005, 1009-10 (D.C.1987) (Stead-man, J., concurring).

. The government, in this case, requested that we abolish the usable amount requirement. Ante at 32 n. 2.

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