Legal Opinion

Comfort v. Irvin

Appellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York

Decided October 1, 1993PublishedCited by 11 opinions

1Opinion of the Court

—Determination unanimously confirmed and petition dismissed. Memorandum: We reject petitioner’s challenges to the reliability of the EMIT test. The correction officers who collected and tested petitioner’s urine sample reasonably complied with the regulations governing urinalysis testing (see, 7 NYCRR part 1020; Matter of Melette v Berry, 181 AD2d 950, 951, lv dismissed 80 NY2d 1022; Matter of Hop Wah v Coughlin, 153 AD2d 999, lv denied 75 NY2d 705), and nothing in the record suggests that there was any defect in the chain of custody (see, Matter of McGill v Coughlin, 182 AD2d 1103). The…

2Cases cited7 opinions

  1. Lahey v. KellyNew York Court of Appeals · 1987
  2. Hop Wah v. CoughlinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1989
  3. Lugo v. CoughlinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
  4. McGill v. CoughlinAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1992
  5. Rosado v. KuhlmannAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1990

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3Cited by11 opinions

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  2. Ciotoli v. GoordAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
  3. Matter of Alston v. AnnucciAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017
  4. Dash v. GoordAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 1998
  5. Mills v. AnnucciAppellate Division of the Supreme Court of the State of New York · 2017

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