What’s Blakely got to do with it? Sentencing in Impaired Driving Cases after Melendez-Diaz
Published for NC Criminal Law on July 24, 2009.
Jeff Welty blogged here and Jessica Smith published a paper here about the implications of the Supreme Court’s holding in Melendez-Diaz that forensic laboratory reports are testimonial, rendering the affiants witnesses who are subject to the defendant’s right of confrontation under the Sixth Amendment. I’ve been pondering the impact of the court’s holding on the ... Read more
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