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Supreme Court declines to revisit laboratory report ruling 

By: Kimberly Atkins
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.

Court considers forensic lab reports – again 

By: Kimberly Atkins
Published: January 11, 2010

Tags: Confrontation Clause, Criminal Law, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts

WASHINGTON – Less than a year after handing down a split decision requiring forensic lab analysts to be available to testify at criminal trials in which lab reports are admitted as evidence, the U.S. Supreme Court again wrestled with the requirements of the Confrontation Clause during oral arguments Monday.

Jeffrey Fisher: Confronting the Confrontation Clause 

By: Sylvia Hsieh
Published: December 10, 2009

Tags: Blakely v. Washington, Confrontation Clause, Crawford v. Washington, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, Sixth Amendment

Jeffrey Fisher is confronting the Confrontation Clause, one U.S. Supreme Court case at a time.

Fisher is hooked on the Sixth Amendment – and for good reason.

He has won three groundbreaking Supreme Court cases on the subject that will be
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The biggest Supreme Court case of the year 

By: Kimberly Atkins
Published: November 9, 2009

Tags: 20 Things Lawyers Need to Know in 2010, Confrontation Clause, Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts

WASHINGTON – This term the Supreme Court will take another look at an issue that led to one of last term’s most significant rulings: when criminal lab reports may be admitted if the lab preparer is not present to testify.