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An appeal by an Altoona man in prison for drug offenses has been dismissed by the Pennsylvania Superior Court due to a procedural error.
Derrick Dewight Dawson, 35, was charged in September 2011 with making three cocaine sales to a police confidential informant.
The sales occurred on different dates, and each charge was docketed under a different number in the Blair County Prothonotary’s Office.
Dawson eventually was convicted of possession with intent to deliver and related offenses for each sale.
He was sentenced to 33 to 66 years in prison and is incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Huntingdon.