Legal Opinion
LIKELY v. Ruane
District Court, D. Massachusetts
Decided February 2, 2010No. Civil Action 06-10342-PBSPublished
1Opinion of the Court
MEMORANDUM AND ORDER
SARIS, District Judge.
INTRODUCTION
On May 17, 2002, a Massachusetts jury convicted Petitioner Ernest Likely of un lawful distribution of a controlled substance (cocaine) within one thousand feet of a public school. During trial, in accordance with then-existing Massachusetts law, the judge allowed the government to introduce into evidence a certificate of analysis by a chemist, prepared pursuant to Mass. Gen. Laws ch. Ill, § 13, to establish that the substance distributed was cocaine.
Petitioner appealed his decision in state court, arguing that the admission of the…
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