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Blood test cases are their own specific animal in a DUI case, if you will. There is a litany of issues that the government needs to check, if you will, the boxes before it would ever see the light of a courtroom.
Blood test cases are their own specific animal in a DUI case, if you will. There is a litany of issues that the government needs to check, if you will, the boxes before it would ever see the light of a courtroom.
But one of them, a key one, is chain of custody. Chain of custody means from the moment the blood is taken out of your arm to the officer, put in their little fancy state police-issued kit, stored overnight, FedExed hours away to a crime lab at often the state capital of every state where the crime labs exist, at least in West Virginia.
All of these things have chain of custody, much less when the analyst takes the blood out of the kit, tests it, stores it. There is a whole host of chain of custody issues, and that’s what we mean by chain of custody.
From the vein, to the lab, to the courtroom. Give us a call if you need help.
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