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By Warren Bates
REVlew-Joumal

:Four out of five Justice Court
judges have accepted results of a
new ?eld drug test presented dur-
ing preliminary hearings to deter
nrine if narcotics suspects should
be bound over for trial.

Members of the legal and law
enforcement communities are hop-
ing the portable test kits will re-
lieve the backlog of drug analyses
being conducted at the Metropoli-
tan Police Department's crime lab.
Hundreds of suspeds are released
from custody each month because
of the long time it takes to get
results to Justice Court for prelimi-
nary hearings.

Only Justice of the Peace James
Bartley has yet to rule on whether
he will accept the kit as a reliable
method for testing for cocaine.
Chief Deputy District Attorney
Tom Leen said Bartley is waiting
for legal briefs to be ?led by the
defendant's attorneys and is likely
to rule on Monday.

During the past two days, chem-
ical experts and police of?cers tes-
ti?ed in each Justice Court during
preliminary hearings for people
charged with narcotics offenses.

Justice of the Peace Bill Jansen
ruled Tuesday morning that in his
case the test had ?proven reliable
and valid within a reasonable cern
tainty to bind the defendant over.?

The hearing for Marvin King in
ansen?s courtroom took two hours

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as the developers of'the test and
local police of?cers testified to its
accuracy and its administration.
Jansen said afterward that the
extended time was necessary to

?lay the foundation of credibility

for the future.?

But Leen said the success of the
program hinges on whether it is
universally accepted.

Narcotics cases are randomly as-
signed to the ?ve judges and if any
of the judges did not accept the
test, it is likely that cases going to
that would encounter the
same problems authorities have
been seeing.

court

?In our opinion and the opinion
of defense lawyers, all agree this
leaps the probable cause hurdle by
quite a margin." Leen said. ?The
Nevada Supreme Court over and
over again has never swerved in
deciding that probable cause only
means a reasonable inference."

Testimony in Jan'sen?s ?court
showed that in studies of 30.000
tests, only seyen have turned up
false positive results.

Other substances besides cocaine
could make the test show a false
positive reading, Leen said. But
the of these substances.
such as PCP mixed with metha-
done or certain prescription drugs.
of ?nding their way into a crime
labe is remote.

Philadelphia prosecutors said
last month in a demonstration of
the Beckton-Dickinson kits to Las
Vegas authorities, that they?ve

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Judges accept drug teSt results

found them to be extremely accu-
rate and have not been succesfully
challenged by defense lawyers.
Police there began using the kits
for the same reason Las Vegas po-
lice hope to use them to get drug
results to court in a timely manner.
Leen said that several dozen Las
Vegas of?cers are trained now in
administering the ?eld tests. If the
program ?ies, he said, hopes are to
have several?hundred such of?cers.
The kits, he said, would not be
used in larger traf?cking cases in
which more than four ounces of
cocaine is involved. 
A traf?cking charge could once
be brought only if 28 grams or

more were impounded. Under such 

a system, Leen said, the kit would
be applicable in about 75 to 80
percent of the narcotics cases.

But because the State Pharmacy
Board reclassified the drug earlier
this year which reduced the
amount of cocaine needed for a
traf?cking charge the kit would
be applicable in about 40 to 50
percent of the cases, he said.

Between 70 and 75 percent of
the narcotics cases the district at-
torney?s of?ce handles involve co?
caine as opposed to other illegal
drugs.

Tin; Wain-L in in the five
Justice Court hearings, Leen said,
were representative of the prob-
lems authorities were having 
people who were released from jail
because of a backlog in laboratory
results.

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North Las Vegl
Tuesday reported
in the mysterior
slaying of a 12-y
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who was found 51
Saturday at 1708
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Debra Holme:
mother. said she
daughter sitting
their home with
girl's body was for
by apartment abc

Police said the
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Roy S. chcris, died November 2.
He was a previous resident of Lu Vegas
and worked for Cnudin Ford as sales
manager for 15 years.

A Navy veteran. he was born March
18. 1928 in Orange. New Jersey and was
a truck salesman for Suburban Ford in
Sacramento. CA. -

He is survived by his wife, Beverly
Ann of Rockland, daughter, Kathleen
Helene Scriven of llockland. son.
Christopher Michael Veneris of Sacra-
mento. mother, Helen Vezeria and
sister Sandra Manet?. both of La: Vegas.
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