Massachusetts Appeals Court· 11/9/1989

Commonwealth v. Shea

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545 N.E.2d 1185
28 Mass. App. Ct. 28
1989 Mass. App. LEXIS 644

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permitting “representative tests” where “numerous suspected bags ... are received for official analysis, all with substances evidently alike — as to color, consistency, packaging, smell, etc.”
approving use of sampling to prove that all nine packets contained cocaine
no basis for reversal of conviction for cocaine trafficking where only five infrared and four ultraviolet tests were made on a total of nine bags seized
no basis for reversal of conviction for cocaine trafficking where only five infrared and four ultraviolet tests were made on a total of nine bags seized
random testing of five out of nine bags of cocaine sufficient to uphold conviction
where a representative sample of alleged narcotics tested positive, the jury were allowed to infer that the remaining untested materials were also narcotics

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Judges: Dreben, Kaplan, Fine

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