2013 Code of Virginia
Title 4.1 - ALCOHOLIC BEVERAGE CONTROL ACT.
Chapter 3 - Prohibited Practices; Penalties; Procedural Matters
Section 4.1-352 - Certificate of forensic scientist as evidence; requiring forensic scientist to appear
§ 4.1-352. Certificate of forensic scientist as evidence; requiring forensic scientist to appear.
The certificate of any forensic scientist employed by the Commonwealth on behalf of the Board or the Department of Forensic Science, when signed by him, shall be evidence in all prosecutions for violations of this title and all controversies in any judicial proceedings touching the mixture analyzed by him. On motion of the accused or any party in interest, the court may require the forensic scientist making the analysis to appear as a witness and be subject to cross-examination, provided such motion is made within a reasonable time prior to the day on which the case is set for trial.
(Code 1950, § 4-90; 1972, c. 741; 1981, c. 410; 1993, c. 866; 2003, c. 130; 2005, cc. 868, 881.)
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