Reyes v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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3 state decisions

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1. “Retz, who has a Bachelor of Science degree in Chemistry, has been the Scientific Director of Witham Lab since 1992. Before he was employed at Wit-ham Lab, Retz was a Laboratory Supervisor for the Indiana State Department of Toxicology. In his capacity as the Scientific Director of the lab, Retz is “familiar with the procedures employed to ensure the chain of custody of samples, the testing of those samples and the validity of the test procedures employed by” Witham Lab. Retz reviewed “all of the records in this laboratory in regard to the urine sample received which was labeled as a sample taken from: George Reyes, taken on 8/16/2005[.]” In his sworn affidavit, Retz concluded that Reyes had used cocaine within seventy-two hours of the August 16th collection of Reyes’s urine sample. Under these facts and circumstances, we conclude that the hearsay statement in Retz’s sworn affidavit concerning Reyes’s cocaine use is reliable.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. Reyes v. State

2. “the right to confront and cross-examine adverse witnesses (unless the hearing officer specifically finds good cause for not allowing confrontation).”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage
   e.g. In Re MP