Petition of the day
By Maureen Johnston
on Apr 15, 2014
Thepetition of the dayis:
13-637
Issue:Whether the Sixth Amendment permits the states expert witness to present to a jury the results of forensic tests that she neither performed nor witnessed as substantive evidence to support her conclusion that petitioner was the source of DNA evidence, when the state does not call the analysts who performed the tests as witnesses or show that they are unavailable and previously subject to cross-examination.
Posted in Cases in the Pipeline
Cases: Derr v. Maryland
Recommended Citation:
Maureen Johnston,
Petition of the day,
SCOTUSblog (Apr. 15, 2014, 12:00 AM),
https://www.scotusblog.com/2014/04/petition-of-the-day-589/