CODE OF VIRGINIA

PROCEDURE FOR SUBPOENA DUCES TECUM OF ANALYSIS EVIDENCE (§ 19.2-187.2)

No subpoena duces tecum shall issue for the production of writings or documents
used to reach the conclusion contained in a certificate of analysis prepared
pursuant to § 19.2-187 except upon affidavit that the requested writings or
documents are material. Upon a showing by the Commonwealth that the production
of such writings and documents would place an undue burden on the Department of
Forensic Science, the court may order that the subpoena duces tecum be satisfied
by making the writings and documents available for inspection by the requesting
party at the laboratory site where the analysis was performed or at the
laboratory operated by the Department of Forensic Science which is closest to
the court in which the case is pending.

HISTORY: 1993, c. 629; 2005, cc. 868, 881.