Supreme Court declines to revisit laboratory report ruling
Published: January 25, 2010
Tags: Confrontation Clause, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
The U.S. Supreme Court has declined to carve out an exception to its ruling requiring prosecutors to make forensic lab analysts available to testify at criminal trials where lab reports are entered into evidence.
The case involved two defendants who were convicted of drug offenses in Virginia. In both cases, police found what appeared to be ...
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