United States v. Patrick Miller

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• stating that the government could have easily avoided chain of custody issues by having the officer who handled and initialed the exhibit testify at trial
• describing chain-of- custody framework in reference to propriety of admitting a match box containing cocaine base into evidence
• presumption of propriety intact where government testimony reasonably shows exhibit unchanged during chain of custody and. no evidence of alteration or tampering
• seizing officer did not testify

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).