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Drug Analysis
Prison for a State Chemist Who Faked Drug Evidence (MA)
Should Drug Testing Labs Be Liable For Faulty Results?
Can drug labs be sued for faulty drug tests?
Sample Motion for Independent Testing of Evidence
Defense attorneys may decide to make a motion for independent testing of forensic evidence in cases where either the State has chosen not to complete forensic testing of an item of evidence or where the State has tested the item and the defense would like it to be re-tested. This issue has come up more …
Amherst drug lab employees said a chemist could have circumvented practices to prevent abuse (MA)
Lack of resources at state crime lab causing delays in drug case prosecutions
Lab Backlog Hinders North Carolina Drug Cases
Review: Thousands More Cases Linked To Drug Lab Crisis (MA)
Mass. high court rules on drug lab case procedures (MA)
Substitute Analyst cases update
The NC Supreme Court decided several cases in June that dealt with the admissibility of testimony by substitute forensic analysts. The lead case in this series is State v. Ortiz-Zape, a case in which a forensic chemist testified for the state regarding the results that a non-testifying analyst produced using the gas chromatograph mass spectrometer …