{"id":286,"date":"2012-07-05T05:55:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-05T05:55:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2012\/07\/massachusetts-oui-attorney-com-2.html"},"modified":"2012-07-05T05:55:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-05T05:55:19","slug":"massachusetts-oui-attorney-com-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/massachusetts-oui-attorney-com-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent United States Supreme Court case, Williams v. Illinois, makes a Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause Decision."},"content":{"rendered":"

As a Massachusetts OUI Attorney, the recent decision of the United States Supreme Court has importance consequences in defending drunk driving case involving blood and breath test evidence. The Williams v. Illinois<\/u> decision is noteworthy as to how divided the court was in its reasoning finding that the defendant’s Sixth Amendment rights were not violated. The decision was a 5-4 decision that could impact the admissibility of blood and breath test results for individuals charged with DUI in Massachusetts<\/a>. <\/p>\n

In Williams v. Illinois<\/u>, the United States Supreme Court<\/a> issued a decision on the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause that makes the Court’s interpretation of this Constitutional provision unclear and confuses this area of law for criminal defense lawyers, prosecutors and trial judges. In this 5-4 decision, 4 justices in what is referred to as the Plurality joined the decision of Justice Alito and Justice Thomas concurred separately in the judgment. <\/p>\n

In the Williams case<\/u>, the State called an expert witness who testified that a DNA profile produced by an outside laboratory, matched a profile produced by the state police lab using a sample of the defendant’s blood. The defendant contended that the expert’s testimony violated the defendant’s right of confrontation when the expert testified that the DNA profile provided by the laboratory was produced from semen found on the victim’s vaginal swab. <\/p>\n

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