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Submitted April 3, 2008

Before BLACKBURNE-RIGSBY, Associate Judge, and FERREN and STEADMAN, Senior Judges.

Otis L. Ransom sold an undercover police officer three bags of heroin. After a two-day jury trial, he was convicted of distributing heroin within 1,000 feet of a Drug-Free Zone, D.C. Code §§ 48-904.01 (a)(1), 904.07a (2001), and sentenced to prison for fourteen months, followed by five years of supervised release. On direct appeal his conviction was affirmed.*fn1 Ransom also filed a Motion for New Trial Based Upon Ineffective Assistance of Counsel. D.C. Code § 23-110 (2001). The trial court denied the motion without a hearing. On appeal from that denial, Ransom argues that the trial court abused its discretion by denying his motion without a hearing. We affirm.

 
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