STATE v. DURHAM

No. COA05-272.

625 S.E.2d 831 (2006)

STATE of North Carolina v. James W. DURHAM, Defendant.

Court of Appeals of North Carolina.

February 21, 2006.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Attorney General Roy Cooper, by Assistant Attorney General Joan M. Cunningham, for the State.

M. Gordon Widenhouse, Jr., Chapel Hill, for defendant-appellant.


WYNN, Judge.

The admission of expert opinion based upon information not itself admissible into evidence does not violate the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation where the expert is available for cross-examination.1 Here, Defendant contends that expert testimony based on an autopsy conducted by someone other than the testifying expert violated his right to confrontation under the rationale...

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