{"id":337,"date":"2014-05-25T10:10:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-25T10:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.massachusettscriminaldefenselawyerblog.com\/2014\/05\/united-states-supreme-court-ha.html"},"modified":"2014-05-25T10:10:58","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T10:10:58","slug":"united-states-supreme-court-ha","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/united-states-supreme-court-ha\/","title":{"rendered":"United States Supreme Court reviews a Series of Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause cases that may clarify the law after the Williams decision"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Supreme Court has before it several pending petitions that could clarify the scope of the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation.  Until today lower courts have been completely split in their reasoning in their attempts to resolve Confrontation Clause challenges. <\/p>\n<p>  In the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.scotusblog.com\/case-files\/cases\/turner-v-united-states\/\" target=\"_blank\">case of <u>Turner v. United States<\/u><\/a>, the defendant is appealing his conviction in the United States District Court for a drug distribution charge based on the fact that the chemist that performed the analysis of the cocaine at issue did not testify. <\/p>\n<p>  To prove that the substance was cocaine, the Government called a lab supervisor who reviewed the report of the original forensic analyst and concluded that he would have reached the same conclusion even though he did not personally conduct any of the testing.  In the Turner case, the technician who actually tested the cocaine was on maternity leave.  <\/p>\n<div class=\"read_more_link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.delsignoredefense.com\/blog\/united-states-supreme-court-ha\/\"  title=\"Continue Reading United States Supreme Court reviews a Series of Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause cases that may clarify the law after the Williams decision\" class=\"more-link\">Continue Reading \u203a<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The United States Supreme Court has before it several pending petitions that could clarify the scope of the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation. Until today lower courts have been completely split in their reasoning in their attempts to resolve Confrontation Clause challenges. In the case of Turner v. 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