United States v. Michael Joseph Johnson, United States of America v. Dolores Y. Elliott

How courts have described this case

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• holding that under the District of Columbia Code the dismissal of federal charges did not deprive the District Court for the District of Columbia of jurisdiction over local charges
• saying that a “false statement” was admissible because “it reflected an attempt to avoid the charge against [him]”
• stating that if the government could “easily have established” the element in question, “we have no idea why the government did not prove it”
• distance from school “to a point five feet up the walkway to Johnson’s house” was 994 feet
• distance from school “to a point five feet up the walkway to [the defendant’s] house” was 994 feet
• government “offered no map” or other evidence showing that distance from school to “any point within the property” where the drugs were found was less than 1000 feet

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).