Legal Opinion
United States v. Metcalf
U S Air Force Court of Military Review
Decided April 28, 1992No. Misc. Nos. 91-05A, 91-05BPublishedCited by 3 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
McLAUTHLIN, Judge:
Was the military judge correct as a matter of law to order further tests of these accuseds’ urine samples when the samples were already reported as positive for cocaine metabolites and chain of custody was uncontested? We conclude he was not, and grant the government’s appeal.
Airman First Class (A1C) Metcalf and A1C Mosley were each randomly selected to provide urine samples for drug testing. Analysis of A1C Metcalf’s sample at the Air Force Drug Testing Laboratory (AFDTL) showed a concentration of 355 ng/ml of the cocaine metabolite benzoylecgonine (BE).…
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