Opinion ID: 2392074
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Heading Rank: 4

Heading: Laboratory Testing Requisition Form'

Text: This form identified Patuxent as the `Collection Site' for `7' different specimens, one collected on May 8, another on May 10, and five on May 15, 1997. Listed under the `Specimen Identity' column of this form were handwritten names of seven different inmates. Each name appeared in a separately numbered box. The first line in each box identified the inmate's name in manuscript with a corresponding inmate number. On the second line, appearing right below the manuscript name and inmate number, each inmate signed the form. `Michael Pollock # 4669' is identified as the fourth specimen, dated `5-15-97,' and `collected by A.P. Jones & D. Taylor.' (Emphasis added.) In cursive, under his manuscript name and number, Michael Pollock signed his name and correctly identified himself as `# 4695.' (Emphasis added.) The form indicates `Capt. L. Latham' `released' the specimens to a courier from Friends Medical Laboratory (`Friends') on `5/15/97' at `1:35 pm.' and authorized Friends to test the specimens. The next day, on May 16, 1997, Friends tested a urine sample received on `05/15/97' that it identified as belonging to `Client: Pollock, Michael 4669.' (Emphasis added.) The results of this test showed that the sample was positive for marijuana. Friends faxed a copy of the test results to Patuxent on May 19, 1997. A parole revocation warrant was issued immediately. On May 20, Pollock surrendered and was returned to Patuxent. At a May 22 preliminary revocation hearing, Pollock denied using marijuana, but `admitted that he had been briefly in the presence of suspected marijuana smokers[.]' The hearing officer found probable cause for charges that Pollock had violated the terms of his parole, and ordered a parole revocation hearing. On May 23, at the request of Patuxent, Friends performed a `confirmation re-test,' with the same results. The confirmation test report identified the `client' from whom the sample was taken with the same typewritten `Pollock, Michael' that appeared on the original test report, but without the incorrect typewritten inmate number `4669.' Instead, handwritten immediately beneath Pollock's name is the following notation: `4695 Ref-P.' (Emphasis added.) It is unclear whether the person who added the handwritten inmate number was someone at Friends or at Patuxent.