Evidence – Drug certificates
Where the defendant was found guilty of possessing cocaine with intent to distribute, the case remanded for a new trial because of an erroneous admission of drug analysis certificates in violation of...
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Where certificates of chemical analysis were admitted into evidence without the defendant having had the opportunity to cross-examine the analyst, that was a violation of the defendant’s constitutional...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates
Where a defendant has been convicted of trafficking in cocaine and doing so in a school zone, a new trial must be ordered because of the commonwealth’s introduction of several certificates of analysis...
View ArticleCriminal – Drug certificates – Search warrant
Where the defendant was convicted of trafficking in cocaine, possession of oxycodone and resisting arrest, the search warrant through which the commonwealth obtained some of its drug evidence was valid...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates – Waiver – Colloquy
Where a defendant was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone, the convictions must be upheld on the grounds that (1) his pretrial...
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Where certificates of drug analysis were offered at trial to prove the chemical composition of substances seized in the defendants’ shared apartment, the defendants’ convictions should be affirmed...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates
Where a defendant was convicted of distributing heroin and possessing marijuana, the evidence was insufficient to convict him of distributing heroin, and therefore judgment shall enter for the...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates – Credibility
Where a District Court jury convicted a defendant of drug charges, the decision of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305 (2009), does not require reversal of the convictions, as the trial...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates
Where a jury convicted a defendant of drug-related offenses including trafficking in cocaine over 28 grams, the convictions must be vacated because certificates of chemical analysis establishing the...
View ArticleCriminal – Drug certificates – Franks hearing – Double jeopardy
Where there was constitutional error in the admission of drug certificates, the judgments against the defendant must be reversed.
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates – Field testing
Where (1) based on controlled buys, a jury convicted the defendant of four counts of trafficking in cocaine in excess of 28 grams, (2) the defendant was also convicted of a single count of trafficking...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates
Where certificates of chemical analysis were admitted into evidence without the defendant having had the opportunity to cross-examine the analyst, that was a violation of the defendant’s constitutional...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates
Where a defendant has been convicted of trafficking in cocaine and doing so in a school zone, a new trial must be ordered because of the commonwealth’s introduction of several certificates of analysis...
View ArticleCriminal – Drug certificates – Search warrant
Where the defendant was convicted of trafficking in cocaine, possession of oxycodone and resisting arrest, the search warrant through which the commonwealth obtained some of its drug evidence was valid...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates – Waiver – Colloquy
Where a defendant was convicted of possession with intent to distribute cocaine and possession with intent to distribute oxycodone, the convictions must be upheld on the grounds that (1) his pretrial...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates
Where certificates of drug analysis were offered at trial to prove the chemical composition of substances seized in the defendants’ shared apartment, the defendants’ convictions should be affirmed...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates
Where a defendant was convicted of distributing heroin and possessing marijuana, the evidence was insufficient to convict him of distributing heroin, and therefore judgment shall enter for the...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates – Credibility
Where a District Court jury convicted a defendant of drug charges, the decision of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305 (2009), does not require reversal of the convictions, as the trial...
View ArticleEvidence – Drug certificates
Where a jury convicted a defendant of drug-related offenses including trafficking in cocaine over 28 grams, the convictions must be vacated because certificates of chemical analysis establishing the...
View ArticleCriminal – Drug certificates – Franks hearing – Double jeopardy
Where there was constitutional error in the admission of drug certificates, the judgments against the defendant must be reversed.
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