Supreme Court: lab technicians must testify at trial; student strip search unconstitutional
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In a ruling that will have a wide impact on prosecutors across the country, The Supreme Court has held that lab reports used as evidence by prosecutors in criminal cases are testimonial evidence, and therefore the lab technicians must be made available to testify at trial under the Confrontation Clause.
The 5-4 ruling came in the case of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts.See the full content of this document
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Supreme Court: lab technicians must testify at trial; student strip search unconstitutional
In another major decision, the Court held that the ...
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