Criminal – Drug Prosecution – Certificate – Chemical Analysis

By Deborah Elkins
Published: September 1, 2010

Tags: Criminal, Fairfax County Circuit Court, Judge Michael F. Devine, Virginia Circuit Courts

In this prosecution for felony possession of a controlled substance, a Fairfax Circuit Court rejects defendant’s motion to exclude a certificate of analysis as based on scientifically unreliable evidence, a chemical analysis performed on the suspected controlled substance, cathinone. To identify the substance, the chemists performing the tests used a gas chromatograph equipped with two separate ...

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