Live webinar presented by Ed Brown, Ph.D.
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Drug Analysis
Safe, Efficient, Reliable: New Science in the Fight Against Killer Drugs
NIST article about testing of drugs that may contain fentanyl or other dangerous synthetic opioids. The article contains video clips showing how powder substances can contaminate various surfaces in laboratories and addresses ways that labs work to eliminate contamination.
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Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins to drop charges, convictions in tens of thousands of cases tied to troubled state lab
Massachusetts crime lab scandal could widen as another chemist is investigated
NIST Study Will Help Labs Distinguish Between Hemp and Marijuana
Defending Drug Overdose Homicides Training
Location: a Live NACDL Virtual EventDates: Runs weekly on Thursdays from January 28 – February 18, 2021Cost: Free Program Description: With opioid-related deaths devastating communities across the country, many legislatures, prosecutors, and law-enforcement officers are choosing to treat these accidental overdose deaths as homicides. Despite the fact that there is no empirical evidence to suggest that such prosecutions stem …
Suffolk District Attorney Rachael Rollins looking into third chemist at state drug lab
Anatomy of a Crime Lab: Winning Convictions ‘On the Cheap’
‘Cog In A Wheel’: 3 Ex-Prosecutors, Facing Potential Discipline For Drug Lab Scandal, Blame System Or Each Other
San Francisco DA Posts List Of Cases Possibly Impacted By Forensic Lab Analyst Misconduct
108 Convictions Tied to Massachusetts Chemist’s Misconduct May Be Vacated
Challenging an officer’s identification of marijuana by sight or smell
There have been several posts on this and related topics here and here. This post will attempt to compile all of the resources and walk attorneys through the process of making these challenges. N.C. Gen. Stat. § 90-87(16) provides the statutory definition of marijuana, specifically excluding from its definition industrial hemp. Industrial hemp, as defined in …
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