MARTIN v. STATE

No. 149, 2012.

60 A.3d 1100 (2013)

Larry MARTIN, Defendant Below, Appellant, v. STATE of Delaware, Plaintiff Below, Appellee.

Supreme Court of Delaware.

Decided: February 4, 2013.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Santino Ceccotti , Office of the Public Defender, Wilmington, Delaware for appellant.

Josette D. Manning and Sean P. Lugg (argued), Department of Justice, Wilmington, Delaware, for appellee.

Before STEELE, Chief Justice, HOLLAND, BERGER, JACOBS and RIDGELY, Justices constituting the Court en Banc.


STEELE, Chief Justice.

In this appeal, we consider whether a Superior Court judge's decision to admit a blood analysis report without the testing chemist's testimony violated Defendant-Appellant's Sixth Amendment confrontation rights. Here, the testifying laboratory manager who ultimately certified the report testified before the jury, but the manager neither observed nor performed the test. We hold that the absent analyst's testimonial representations were admitted...

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