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Prosecutors: No reward for late-produced drug chemist reports.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

 Bill of Rights. (From the public domain.) Prosecutors like getting drug analysis reports into evidence at trial without the chemist's presence, so that chemists may test more drugs, more drugs, and even more drugs  in an effort to nab more people in the unjust drug war.   Praised be the D.C. Court of Appeals today for having put the prosecution's feet to the fire by requiring the presence of the chemist to testify where the drug analysis report is not delivered to the defense within the statutorily required time to give the defense an opportunity to decide whether to arrange for the chemist's presence to testify at trial. Eric R. Washington v. U.S.,, _ A.2d _ (D.C. App. Feb. 19, 2009).     In Washington, on appeal the prosecution conceded that the defense was not delivered the chemist report on time to trigger the defendant's statutory requirement to seek the chemist's presence at trial...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on February 19, 2009 (boomark / email).