Legal Opinion
Vann v. State
Court of Appeals of Alaska
Decided April 23, 2010No. A-9887PublishedCited by 16 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
MANNHEIMER, Judge.
The major question in this case is whether the superior court violated the defendant's right of confrontation under the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution when the superior court allowed a laboratory technician employed by the State Crime Lab to testify about the results of genetic testing performed by the Crime Lab, when a portion of that testing was conducted by another Crime Lab technician who did not testify.
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