26 Kan. App. 2d 837 - State v. Beal’s Empirical Analysis

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5 state decisions

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1. ““The methodology employed in the testing of the purported controlled substances in this case is suspect. The individual packets that comprised Exhibit 11 were never weighed separately. We do know that their combined weight was 1.4 grams. While samples were taken from both packets in Exhibit 11, they were not tested separately but combined into one sample, which tested positive for methamphetamine. One of the packets could have contained methamphetamine and one could have contained a substance that was not controlled. Both packets could have contained methamphetamine, but no test was performed that would prove this. Even if one of the packets in Exhibit 11 contained methamphetamine, we do not know its separate weight in order to determine whether when combined with Exhibit 10 (0.4 grams), there was more than 1 gram of methamphetamine that would require the purchase of a drug tax stamp. Laboratory tests of this land must show drat there is a controlled substance as well as its quantity.” 26 Kan. App. 2d at 844 .”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 33 Kan. App. 2d 244 - State v. Jennings