# Washington v. United States

> District of Columbia Court of Appeals · December 30, 1992 · 619 A.2d 30

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/4949260

## Case

- **Full name:** Alonzo D. WASHINGTON v. UNITED STATES
- **Court:** District of Columbia Court of Appeals
- **Decided:** December 30, 1992
- **Citations:** 619 A.2d 30; 1992 D.C. App. LEXIS 328; 1992 WL 387511
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by King
- **Judges:** Belson, Ferren, King
- **Cited by:** 3 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

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## Opinion text

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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