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Author:        Sargeant-Georgia.
Title:         Cocaine on cash not proof of drug dealing, courts rule.
Source:        Trial.  Nov, 1993. v29(n11). p91(2).
Abstract:      Studies have found drug traces on randomly collected money to
               be so prevalent that courts are altering their opinions that
               such evidence must be connected with drug dealing. One study
               conducted by a Drug Enforcement Administration chemist found
               drug traces on more than a third of the bills he tested. He
               even found conveyor belts in Federal Reserve machinery were
               contaminated. Federal judges have responded by ruling that
               cocaine traces were too frequent to constitute useful evidence
               and that police-dog sniffing out of drug-tainted cash was not
               grounds for forfeiture without direct evidence of crime.
Jurisdiction:  United States.
ISSN:          0041-2538

Author:        Curriden-Mark.
Title:         Courts reject drug-tainted evidence; studies find cocaine-
               soiled cash so prevalent that even Janet Reno had some.
Source:        ABA-Journal.  August, 1993. v79. p22(1).
Abstract:      Studies by, among others, the Drug Enforcement Administration
               and the Miami Herald indicate that a large portion of the money
               in circulation bears trace amounts of cocaine, and a series of
               convictions have been overturned because traces of a drug on
               another object were deemed inadequate evidence for drug
               possession convictions. The Justice Department's asset seizure
               and forfeiture program depends heavily on tests for traces of
               drugs on various objects, and these studies could affect
               Justice's program.
Jurisdiction:  United States.  states.
ISSN:          0747-0088