# Albert Watson, Jr. v. United States

> Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit · July 15, 1970 · 439 F.2d 442

URL: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9456615

## Case

- **Full name:** Albert WATSON, Jr., Appellant, v. UNITED STATES of America, Appellee
- **Court:** Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- **Decided:** July 15, 1970
- **Citations:** 439 F.2d 442; 141 U.S. App. D.C. 335; 1970 U.S. App. LEXIS 8162
- **Precedential status:** Published
- **Opinion:** Concurrence by Wright
- **Judges:** Wright, Bazelon, Robb, McGowan, Tamm, Lev-Enthal, Robinson, MacKinnon
- **Cited by:** 44 later opinions in the Frix Law Library

## Citator (automated)

- **Yellow flag:** Limited by Marshall v. United States, 414 U.S. 417 (1974).
- Negative treatments: 1
- Distinguished by: 1
- Full citator and citing cases: https://www.frixlaw.com/law-library/cases/9456615

## How later opinions describe it (automated extraction)

- noting that a "defendant raising ... affirmative defenses at trial presumably must bear the burden of going forward with evidence” to prove those defenses

## Opinion text

J. SKELLY WRIGHT, Circuit Judge
(concurring).
I agree with Judge Bazelon that the logic of today’s opinion leads clearly to the conclusion that the federal narcotics laws involved in this case do not *458 apply to nontrafficking narcotics addicts in possession only of narcotics for their own use. Since, however, all of appellant’s contentions save that regarding the insanity defense will be available to him on collateral attack, I join in Judge McGowan’s opinion because of the additional contributions it makes toward the resolution of the problem of treating drug addiction in a criminal context.

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