Legal Opinion
People v. John
New York Court of Appeals
Decided April 28, 2016PublishedCited by 133 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION OF THE COURT
Chief Judge DiFiore.
On this appeal, we address whether defendant’s Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him was violated when the People introduced DNA reports into evidence, asserting that defendant’s DNA profile was found on the gun that was the subject of the charged possessory weapon offense, without producing a single witness who conducted, witnessed or supervised the laboratory’s generation of the DNA profile from the gun or defendant’s exemplar. We conclude that, under the circumstances presented here, defendant’s right to confrontation was…
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