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Petition of the day

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Thepetition of the dayis:

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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.

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/