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MAGRUDER v. COM.

Record Nos. 070762, 070815, 070817.

657 S.E.2d 113 (2008)

Michael Ricardo MAGRUDER v. COMMONWEALTH of Virginia. Sheldon A. Cypress v. Commonwealth of Virginia. Mark A. Briscoe v. Commonwealth of Virginia.

Supreme Court of Virginia.

February 29, 2008.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Joseph R. Winston, Special Appellate Counsel, for appellant Michael Ricardo Magruder.

Thomas B. Shuttleworth, Charles B. Lustig (Shuttleworth, Ruloff, Swain, Haddad & Morecock, on brief), Virginia Beach, for appellant Sheldon A. Cypress.

Joseph D. King, Asst. Public Defender, for appellant Mark A. Briscoe.

Stephen R. McCullough, Deputy State Sol. Gen., Alice T. Armstrong, Asst. Atty. Gen. II, Eugene Murphy, Senior Asst. Atty. Gen. (Robert F. McDonnell, Atty. Gen., William E. Thro, State Sol. Gen., on briefs), for appellee.

Present: HASSELL, C.J., KEENAN, KOONTZ, KINSER, LEMONS and AGEE, JJ., and STEPHENSON, Senior Justice.

OPINION BY Justice CYNTHIA D. KINSER.

In each of these appeals, the defendant claims that the admission into evidence, pursuant to Code § 19.2-187, of a certificate of analysis in the absence of testimony at trial from the person who performed the particular analysis and prepared the certificate yiolated his rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment. Because the procedure provided in Code § 19.2-187.1 adequately protects a criminal defendant...

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