State of Minnesota v. Richard Ellis Hill

OPINION

GILDEA, Chief Justice.

This case presents the . question of whether we should adopt a rebuttable presumption of contamination for controlled .substances that, the St. Paul Police Crime Lab (“Crime Lab”) handled and that the Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension (“BCA”) later tested. The State charged appellant Richard Ellis Hill with aiding and abetting ñrst-degree sale of a mixture of .a controlled substance of ten grams or more, in violation of Minn.Stat. § 155.021, subd. 1(1) (2014), in connection with the sale of methamphetamine. Hill waived his right to a jury and submitted his…