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U.S. v. Rosacker, No. 02-30000 (9th Cir.) (314 F.3d 422) (December 26, 2002) (Judge Thomas G. Nelson)

Loaded on Jan. 1, 2003 published in Punch and Jurists January 27, 2003
Filed under: Punch And Jurists, Sufficiency of Evidence.

Here the Court blasted the validity of a purchased state forensic lab report used to enhance the defendant’s drug sentence, stating it contained “no reliable evidentiary basis for any of the pivotal assumptions [used] in the drug quantity approximation".

This is a significant case because it shatters another legal fiction ...

 

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