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Chain of Custody on Urine Sample

Loaded on Nov. 15, 1993 published in Prison Legal News November, 1993, page 6
Filed under: Evidentiary Ruling (Disciplinary Hearings), Searches, Drug Testing. Location: New York.
Federal courts in New York have held that due process requires a prison disciplinary body to establish a reasonably reliable chain of custody as a foundation for introducing the results of urinalysis tests into evidence at prison disciplinary hearings. This chain of custody requirement, the courts have said, mandates a …

 

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