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Defenders fighting roadside-arrest probable cause built on a $2 reagent test.

Daubert / Probable-Cause Challenge — Presumptive Drug Field Tests

FRE 702 + Fourth Amendment motion to suppress field-drug-test results. NIST + lab-director critique grounded.

Move to suppress on the grounds that the presumptive field test is not a reliable basis for probable cause — citing the discipline's documented false-positive corpus and lab-director acknowledgments.

“no confidence at all in those test kits.”

Dr. Frederic Whitehurst, Ph.D. chemist, former FBI Lab supervisor — quoted in Forensic Resources / NACDL Defender(opens in new tab)
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What this template gives you that the discipline-specific treatise does not.
  1. 01.

    ProPublica and the New York Times documented thousands of false-positive arrests from $2 cobalt thiocyanate kits.

  2. 02.

    Common false positives: chocolate (Hershey's tested positive for marijuana), Tylenol PM (cocaine), household soap, fabric softener.

  3. 03.

    Manufacturer instructions themselves disclaim use as definitive identification — the cross-exam material writes itself.

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Daubert — Drug Field Test — Case details

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What does the brief contain?

Seven sections: cover (your case identifier + jurisdiction stamped on), reliability standard recap (Daubert v. Merrell Dow factors), the lead authority's verbatim finding with source URL, the cumulative-error history with cited exonerations / IG audits / appellate opinions, recommended FRE 702 motion language (~250 words editable), a 10-15 question cross-examination question bank, and the methods + source URLs bibliography.

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