Rules of evidence; dangerous drugs destroyed pursuant to court order · as in force on May 31, 2026
§ 60.70 Rules of evidence; dangerous drugs destroyed pursuant to court
order.
The destruction of dangerous drugs pursuant to the provisions of article seven hundred fifteen hereof shall not preclude the admission on trial or in a proceeding in connection therewith of testimony or evidence where such testimony or evidence would otherwise have been admissible if such drugs had not been destroyed.
Destroying dangerous drugs under article 715 does not prevent otherwise admissible testimony or evidence about those drugs from being received at trial or a related proceeding. ★
Marked in the text: penalties, time limits, sums of money. Editorial emphasis added by this edition; it does not appear in the statute as enacted.
This provision appears in Volume 1 — The Court Officer in Plain English; Volume 2 — The Court Officer: Criminal Procedure Law; Volume 2 — Your Career: Criminal Procedure in Plain English.