palmspringsbum - Felony Cultivation Preliminary Hearing Trial Transcript

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 1  Can you tell the court what that is.
 
 2       A Yes. This is a request for analysis. I
 
 3  recognize my writing, my name is on here with a report
 
 4  number. The items that I collected, A through E, showing
 
 5  random samples of suspected marijuana, and then a large
 
 6  bag of suspected marijuana. In parenthesis, it says,
 
 7  "Please weigh."
 
 8       Q That large bag at the bottom, which I believe is
 
 9  marked Item E-3?
 
 10      A That's correct.
 
 11      Q Can you tell us how you got that large bag.
 
 12 Is that what you described when you said you put
 
 13 everything into a bag?
 
 14      A Yes. After I collected the five random samples
 
 15 from the different plants I placed all the rest of the
 
 16 remaining suspected marijuana into a large grocery bag and
 
 l7 then that was sent along with the five random samples to
 
 18 sheriff's crime lab.
 
 19      Q Now, according to those results did the crime
 
 20 lab weigh that bag?
 
 21      A Yes, they did.
 
 22      Q How much did it weigh?
 
 23      A 545.98 grams.
 
 24      Q And were there samples taken from that by the
 
 25 crime cab to determine if they are marijuana?
 
 26      A It says, additionally on page 2 here, several
 
 27 plants are contained within Item E-3. One of those was
 
 28 examined. Now labeled item 3-A. A green leafy plant