United States v. Vern Thomas

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• driving at high rate of speed through residential neighborhood posed danger to bystanders
• “merely raising the possibility (however hypothetical) of tampering is not sufficient to render evidence inadmissible”
• “[I]f the tapes were in official custody at all times, a presumption arises that the tapes were handled properly.”
• “When chain of custody is called into question without any evidence of tampering, and if the tapes were in official custody at all times, a presumption arises that the tapes were handled properly.”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).