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Sunday, November 09, 2008
Courts - Confrontation clause case re admissibility of crime lab reports
Lyle Denniston of SCOTUSblog presets a comprehensive preview of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, to be argued tomorrow before the U.S. Supreme Court. The issue:
Crime laboratory reports are key pieces of evidence in a large number of criminal trials. When they can be brought into a case, without live testimony from the forensic experts who prepared them, is before the Supreme Court in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts (07-591). A basic issue in the case is whether a crime lab report is, itself, a form of testimony.The briefs and documents filed in the case are available here, via SCOTUSblog.
Note: The ILB would set up pages like this for Indiana cases in an instant, if only there were a reliable way to obtain the documents and materials.
Posted by Marcia Oddi on November 9, 2008 01:29 PM
Posted to Courts in general