United States v. Mitchell, No. 14-3039 (D.C. Cir. 2016)
Annotate this CaseDefendant appealed his conviction for multiple counts of drug crimes resulting from his role in a phencyclidine (PCP) distribution ring. Defendant raised multiple challenges to his conviction, almost all of which are without merit. The court addressed two arguments in full. First, the court rejected defendant's claim that the government failed to adequately authenticate and prove chain of custody for the samples tested at the DEA laboratory and used to show defendant's constructive possession of the PCP; and second, the court rejected defendant's claim that the district court erred in admitting portions of a DEA Investigator's testimony as a summary witness where any such error was harmless. Accordingly, the court affirmed the judgment.
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