§ 4.8 DRUG TESTING
State v. Lucero, 207 Ariz. 301, 85 P.3d 1059 (App. Div. 1, 2004)
Scientific evidence based on gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (GC/MS) technology is admissible in court. This technology has long been accepted by courts and used by scientists as a standard method in drug detection. In this case, the defendant failed to show either that the GC/MS technique was a novel scientific method or was a formerly accepted method newly fallen into disrepute in the scientific community. Therefore...
