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Anyone else sees an issue with facts not admissible being able to support PC?

davidmcbeth

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http://www.houstonchronicle.com/new...ul-drug-convictions-identified-in-8382474.php

The $2 roadside tests, which officers use to help establish probable cause for an arrest, cannot be used at trial as evidence under Texas law.

How can a test that not admissible be used to establish PC? That's crazy.

Currently, I am examining my state lab's criminal lab testing methods and validation studies and have found issues with every one I have completed an examination of....big enough issues to make the test results unreliable IMO.
 
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