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"Justices Rule Lab Analysts Must Testify on Results"

"Justices Rule Lab Analysts Must Testify on Results": Adam Liptak had this article yesterday in The New York Times.

Yesterday in The Washington Post, Robert Barnes reported that "Defendants Have Right To Confront Analysts of Forensics, Court Rules."

Yesterday in The Los Angeles Times, David G. Savage reported that "Defendant can cross-examine forensic experts, Supreme Court rules; Technicians who prepare crime lab reports can be called forth as witnesses, justices say, reversing a conviction of a Massachusetts man accused of selling cocaine."

Warren Richey of The Christian Science Monitor reports that "Supreme Court says criminal defendants can challenge forensic experts; Minority justices warn that the guilty 'will go free on the most technical grounds.'"

law.com's Tony Mauro reports that "Forensic ruling adds burden for prosecutors; High court says prosecutors must use witnesses to present evidence."

Yesterday in The Boston Globe, Jonathan Saltzman and John Ellement reported that "Accused win right to query forensics; High court rules on confronting scientific evidence."

And yesterday's edition of The Boston Herald contained an article headlined "High court sides with con; Coakley loses fight to uphold man's drug conviction" and an editorial entitled "A win for drug dealers."

Full post as published by How Appealing on June 27, 2009 (boomark / email).