Detailed Instructions: In this task, you will be shown a prompt from a judicial decision and multiple holding statements derived from citations following text in a legal decision. Holdings represent the governing legal rule when the law is applied to a particular set of facts. There are five answer choices for each citing text. The correct answer is the holding statement that corresponds to the citing text. The four incorrect answers are other holding statements. You should find the correct option. There is a <HOLDING> token in the position of the citing text prompt where the holding statement was extracted.
Problem:weight' given in the lookout. 3 . The government moved for admission of the report after Officer Garner confirmed that it bore the same identification number as the heat-sealed envelope in which she placed the two ziplocks given to her by Officer McClinton 4 . The chemist's report is commonly referred to the "DEA-7," but to be precise, it is only the Report of Drug Property Collected, Purchased or Seized that is the Drug Enforcement Administration Form 7, or DEA-7. 5 . jn the chemist's absence, Officer Garner misunderstood the report and testified that the net weight of the cocaine base was .15 grams. This answer was mistaken because .15 grams was the reported net weight of the white rocky substance in its entirety. 6 . See Giles v. District of Columbia, 548 A.2d 48, 53-54 (D.C.1988) (<HOLDING>); accord, Ellis v. United States, 834 A.2d 858,
Holding statements: (A) holding that the official charged with responsibility to act must be an official within the doj with the authority to act in the circumstances (B) holding that a chemists report is admissible under dccode 4890506 without need for a testimonial foundation if four requirements are met 1 the analysis of a controlled substance must be performed by a chemist charged with an official duty to perform such analysis 2 an official report of chain of custody and of analysis of the controlled substance must be attested to by that chemist 3 the chemists official report must be attested to by the officer having legal custody of the report and 4 the official report must be accompanied by a certificate under seal that the officer has legal custody (C) holding that the question of whether a municipal official is a policymaking official is a matter of state law to be decided by the court (D) holding that the color of law element may be satisfied by the fact that an official gains access to the victim in the course of official duty (E) holding that if the government fails to object to the presentence report the district courts reliance on the report is reviewed for plain error
Solution:
(B)