The DPP and gardai are considering the potential fallout from a legal ruling in a drug trafficking trial which last week saw charges dropped because the purity levels of the seized cocaine haul could not be proven.
It has also emerged that despite a previous Supreme Court ruling quashing a conviction against a drug dealer for exactly the same reasons, the State's main forensic laboratory still does not test the purity levels of illegal drugs.
The February 2011 ruling in which Wexford man, Alphonsus Connolly, successfully overturned his conviction under Section 15(a) of the Misuse of Drugs Act was last week used as part of a successful legal bid to have more serious charges against another drug dealer dropped.
Source: Irish Independent, 22/01/2012
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