[muawiyah]

The major problem for the accused under this decision is that "if he's guilty" this simply increases the time to discuss the narcotics he was peddling and reduces, proportionately, the chance to talk about what a good boy he was otherwise.

The result will be that more guilty perps will end up in jail longer, and a couple of guys who might be lucky ('cause the lab messed up something) will get to go back on the street and try it again real soon.

I seriously doubt it will reduce the number of innocent people sent to jail.

[Still Thinking]

Well, I assume the attorneys for the guilty guys will figure that out and react accordingly, but it’s at least a new tool that can be used by people to show the lab-state-prosecution relationship instead of being forced to treat lab results paid from the same purse as the prosecution as holy writ.