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Drug Analysis
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 …
New SFPD drug lab documents released
Pseudoscience and Wrongful Convictions in the War on Drugs
James Shellow, Cross-Examination of the Analyst in Drug Prosecutions
National Academy of Sciences Report
See pp. 133-136 for the National Research Counsel’s assessment of the analysis of controlled substances.
False Positives Equal False Justice
A California Attorneys for Criminal Justice (CACJ) report by John Kelly. The report is largely based on the research of Dr. Frederic Whitehurst who tested field drug test kits and exposed and documented that they render false positives with legal substances. The report focuses on the Duquenois-Levine and KN Reagent tests used to test for …