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The United States Supreme Court issued its decision in Bullcoming v. New Mexico<\/u> today, holding that the Sixth Amendment precludes the State from introducing a lab report of a forensic blood test without calling the analyst who conducted the analysis. The State attempted to satisfy the confrontation clause by calling a different analyst who did not conduct the test but was familiar with blood testing procedures. The United States Supreme Court found that the defendant’s right of confrontation was violated by this procedure in a 5-4 decision. Click this link to read a copy of the decision<\/a>. <\/p>\n

The decision of the Court is notable in that four justices viewed the result to be governed by the Court’s decision in Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts<\/u>, 557 U.S. ___ (2009). The Court rejected the argument that the seeming reliability of scientific evidence does not exclude this evidence from being subject to the Confrontation Clause. The Court cited argument raised in the brief of the National Association of Criminal Defense Lawyers<\/a> that errors in forensic blood test are not so remote to be negligible. <\/p>\n

Finally, the court rejected the argument that requiring live testimony is too burdensome for the State. As in Melendez-Diaz<\/u>, the Court stressed that notice and demand procedures can be used to help reduce the expense of having a forensic expert testify in court. <\/p>\n

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