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Drug Analysis
NC bans synthetic drugs; ‘Bath Salts’ no longer found on store shelves
Drug and alcohol tests had ‘error after error’
NC sheriff blames cheese for 0 drug test
Former evidence technician for Davie sheriff’s office sentenced on drug-distribution charge
Missing in action
Missing oxycodone prompts SBI audit of evidence room at Asheville police department
Wake sheriff’s investigator faces embezzlement, drug charges
Missing oxycodone prompts SBI audit of evidence room at Asheville police department
Missing drugs at Asheville Police Department probed
SBI Probing APD Evidence Room
SBI Probes Asheville Police Department
SBI probes Asheville Police Department evidence room
Tribune analysis: Drug-sniffing dogs in traffic stops often wrong (IL)
State v. Ward 364 N.C. 133 (2010)
A NC Supreme Court decision finding the trial court abused its discretion by allowing the State’s expert to visually identify drugs using an insufficiently established method. The court found the expert’s use of information in Micromedex literature to make drug identification did not meet the first prong of Rule 702 as it was never established …