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Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts

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The National Law Journal has commentary by Matthew Kaiser, Washington, D.C. attorney, "Lab Technicians, Too."  It concerns the case of Melendez-Diaz v.Massachusetts, which will be herad in the Supreme Court's next term.  Here is an excerpt from the beginning:The most important case for the future of our criminal justice system is going to be heard by the U.S. Supreme Court in its next term. In Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, the court will decide whether a criminal defendant has the right to cross-examine a lab technician who tested evidence in a case. Though it isn't what the case is expressly about, Melendez-Diaz will determine how the courts handle DNA evidence; it is crucial to the future of criminal procedure. The court should reaffirm our collective commitment to a vigorous adversarial system, and hold that forensic evidence must be subjected to cross-examination...continue to full post

Full post as published by StandDown Texas Project on July 11, 2008 (boomark / email).