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Supreme Court On Expert Witness Testimony

In Opinion analysis: New curb on crime lab reports, journalist Lyle Denniston writes:

A closely divided Supreme Court on Thursday continued its pattern of restricting prosecutors’ use of out-of-court statements to get criminal convictions, ruling that a report of a crime lab is valid evidence only if the technician who did the testing or observed it – not a substitute witness – is called to the stand.

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