North Carolina’s Notice and Demand Statute for Chemical Analyses in Drug Cases Is Constitutional

Published for NC Criminal Law on January 06, 2010.

In Melendez-Diaz v. Massachussetts, the United States Supreme Court held that forensic laboratory reports—such as those identifying a substance as a controlled substance—are testimonial and subject to the new Crawford Confrontation Clause rule. For more detail on that decision, you can review a paper posted here. Under the Crawford rule, testimonial statements by declarants who ... Read more

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