28 N.C. App. 110 - State v. Van Rogers’s Empirical Analysis

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6 state decisions

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1. “Defendant assigns error to the court’s overruling his objection and allowing [the deputy sheriff] to testify that from his examina-' tion of the white powder found in the five tinfoil packets, in his opinion the white powder contained heroin. The witness had previously testified that he had approximately twenty-five hours training in the identification of controlled substances, both through the S.B.I. and the Federal Government, that he had three and a half years experience “working with drugs on the street,” and that he had examined heroin “numerous times.” He was not asked, either on direct or on cross-examination, as to what his “examination” of the white powder consisted of, or as to what tests, if any, he made in the course of that “examination.” Had such questions been asked, it would be easier to evaluate the witness’s qualification to testify to the opinion called for, and the jury could have assessed more accurately the weight which it might give to the opinion expressed. In any event, in view of the subsequent testimony of the S.B.I. chemist, we find no prejudicial error in the court’s ruling in the present case.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. 189 N.C. App. 640 - State v. Llamas-Hernandez