What kind of evidence is generally used to convict someone of either a manufacturing or conspiracy to manufacture charge?

Clearly if they break in and you have a house full of glassware and chemicals with a reflux currently going on and you sleeping beside of it, they will probably have an easier time, but what if everything was made up before hand and the lab since long gone?

Do they contact credit card and shipping companies to try to figure out what you've been ordering?  Even if they go to all that trouble it doesn't really prove anything.  You might have flushed them as soon as they came in.  You might have been writing an investigative piece on how readily available drug precursors are.  You probably planned to make drugs, but it's hardly proof.

I know they can take samples from certain absorbent materials to find traces of chemicals, but that proves possession of miniscule amounts of the chemicals found, not what you were doing with them.

I'm just wondering what kind of evidence is needed to make a case if they don't find an active lab with your fingerprints all over everything.

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thanx for that one naf

Anyone with a lab in their residence is  assumed to be making drugs or a terrorist. Even if they legitimately are neither.  So you are going to be arrested no matter what. If you have a good lawyer with trial experience you may be acquitted. It all depends though. If it is a meth lab and you are extracting pse from otc tabs the jury will understand that easily. However, if there are no direct precursors found and you were doing something like catechol to MDMA. The prosecution is going to have to hire a chemist to be an expert witness and explain it to the jury. You can obviously hire your own expert. Since an expert witness costs the prosecution money or sending their own chemists to testify at a trial wastes their time. You are probably in a better position for a plea bargain. If you do go trial it you have a much better chance if it is a total synth case. But no matter what you are better off avoiding LEO in the first place.

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Timecube this is reply #1 from wetdreams.ws thread getting busted. https://www.wetdreams.ws/forum/index.php?topic=19942.0

Go to it and down load the Alba Forrester indictment. Its 96 pages long and if you haven't read it it will blow your fucking mind. In it is also Hobart Huson aka Strike Hive bee #1.look at how many ways they watched them... video, GPS, email, phone records, email records, international surveillance to Sweden, breaking in to plant bugs, mirrored their computers, installed physical keyloggers... they went all out on this investigation with every bit of technology available, and this was in 2000-2002.

I copied that last part from the thread but it is a must read. Shortly after reading it i saw his "strike's" debut on dateline via you tube "X files" and was almost sick. It is amazing to put a name to face after so long I mean I never pictured strike having a face or a name ya dig he was just a ghost in the ether like elusis or rhodium.