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Not undated boilerplate: the reliability critique and lab-director acknowledgments are source-linked to the record, so the citation is one you can verify before you file. ProPublica and the New York Times documented thousands of false-positive arrests from $2 cobalt thiocyanate kits.
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Documented false positives include common household cleaners, over-the-counter medications, and everyday substances, none of them the drug the kit reported.
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Manufacturer instructions themselves disclaim use as definitive identification, the cross-exam material writes itself.
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“The kits 'should not be used as sole evidence for the identification of a narcotic or drug of abuse.'”
- Supporting authorityVerbatim quote
“21 percent of evidence that the police listed as methamphetamine after identifying it was not methamphetamine, and half of those false positives were not any kind of illegal drug at all.”
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“By our estimate, though, every year at least 100,000 people nationwide plead guilty to drug-possession charges that rely on field-test results as evidence.”
- Supporting authorityVerbatim quote
“In Houston over the past decade, the crime lab found that the alleged drugs in more than 300 convictions were not drugs at all.”
- Supporting authorityVerbatim quote
“This standard applies to field-testing kits consisting of color test reagents for the preliminary identification of drugs in their pure and/or diluted forms.”
- Supporting authorityVerbatim quote
“But cobalt thiocyanate also turns blue when it is exposed to more than 80 other compounds, including methadone, certain acne medications and several common household cleaners.”
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