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UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT DISTRICT OF MASSACHUSETTS ) ) ) ) ) CIVIL ACTION NO. 06-10342-PBS ) ) ) )

ERNEST LIKELY, Petitioner, v. PAUL RUANE, Respondent.

MEMORANDUM AND ORDER February 2, 2010 Saris, U.S.D.J. INTRODUCTION On May 17, 2002, a Massachusetts jury convicted Petitioner Ernest Likely of unlawful distribution of a controlled substance (cocaine) within one thousand feet of a public school. During

trial, in accordance with then-existing Massachusetts law, the judge allowed the government to introduce into evidence a certificate of analysis by a chemist, prepared pursuant to Mass. Gen. Laws ch. 111,

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