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COURT OF APPEALS OF VIRGINIA

Present:  Judges Elder, Bray and Senior Judge Baker
Argued at Richmond, Virginia

STACY LAMONT HAYES, S/K/A
STACEY HAYES
   OPINION BY
v. Record No. 3025-97-2 JUDGE LARRY G. ELDER
         MAY 11, 1999
COMMONWEALTH OF VIRGINIA

FROM THE CIRCUIT COURT OF THE CITY OF PETERSBURG
Oliver A. Pollard, Jr., Judge

Daniel W. Hall, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant.

Steven A. Witmer, Assistant Attorney General (Mark L. Earley, Attorney General, on brief), for appellee.


Stacey Hayes (appellant) appeals from his bench trial conviction for possession of cocaine and forged United States currency.  On appeal, he contends the trial court erroneously (1) denied his motion to suppress the cocaine, altered U.S. banknote, and his statements, (2) admitted the certificate of analysis into evidence in the absence of a sufficient showing of chain of custody and (3) held the evidence, in the absence of the certificate of analysis, was sufficient to support appellant

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