People v. Stamps
Annotate this CaseOn four occasions in October-December 2012, Stamps was pulled over by the Pittsburg police because her car did not display a license plate. Each time, she and her car were searched, and on each occasion drugs were discovered. Stamps was convicted of multiple drug possession offenses. The court of appeal reversed in part, finding that the trial court improperly admitted the testimony of an expert criminalist who identified the drugs in pill form as controlled substances (oxycodone and dihydrocodeineone) solely by comparing their appearance to pills pictured on a Web site called “Ident-A-Drug.” The expert’s testimony was based on unreliable and inadmissible hearsay from the Web site and did not involve the use of the witness’s expertise. The court noted that a retrial on those counts is not barred by double jeopardy principles.
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