NO JUDGE, not even a judge in Yuma, Arizona, would find the drug test information to be admissible.
I know this because a narcotics officer in Yuma, Arizona, had 1500 hits of LSD mailed to the jail's PO Box. The drug dealer, my client, was a stupid kid who needed money. Since 1500 hits of LSD was one hit for every 10 people then living in Yuma, of course the stupid kid sold directly to a narc. The kid would still be in prison, if the narc had not had him mail the LSD to the jail, and forgot to tell the jail to expect the package.
Turns out that you cannot keep drugs in a desk drawer accessible to everyone and still admit the drugs into evidence. This is called maintaining the chain of evidence and is why the CSIs on TV are always signing the evidence in and out.
BTW, have you noticed how often the prosecutions that seem strange are prosecutions of people of color?
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