A chemist testifying on behalf of two men convicted of trafficking millions of doses of LSD disputed how federal officials computed the amount of the hallucinogenic drug tied to the two men when he testified Monday.
Sentencing of William Leonard Pickard, 57, and Clyde Apperson, 48, will resume at 9:30 a.m. today. Pickard and Apperson were convicted March 31 of conspiracy and possession of LSD with intent to distribute more than 10 grams of LSD. The sentencing hearing entered its second day Monday. Sentencings in U.S. District Court ordinarily take no more than two hours. But the defendants have called as witnesses Timothy McKibben, a Drug Enforcement Administration senior research chemist, and Dr. Peter Lott, retired university chemistry professor and owner of a small laboratory.
"There is no question that there was LSD in the materials, in my mind," Lott testified Monday.
