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Attack claims of reliable and unbroken drug chain of custody.

By Marks & Katz, LLC

The criminal justice system is so overgrown that crime evidence is bound too often to get mixed up, misplaced, and contaminated.  For drug prosecutions, the suspected drugs may pass through several hands before being tested by a chemist. Often, the seizing police officers have the alleged controlled dangerous substances field-tested and sealed. From there, the suspected drugs may go to a drug vault at the police station, by the seizing officer or by another officer. From there, a courier may bring the alleged drugs to a storage container at the chemist's lab. Sometime thereafter, the alleged drugs will go to the chemist, whether the chemist gets them from the drug vault or has someone bring them to the chemist. Consequently, usually more people than the merely the seizing officer and chemist are in the chain of custody...continue to full post

Full post as published by Underdog on May 09, 2009 (boomark / email).