State v. Whittington

EDMUNDS, Justice.

*187Before defendant’s trial for narcotics offenses, the State notified defendant that, pursuant to North Carolina General Statutes subsection 90-95(g), it intended to introduce a laboratory report of the results of a chemical analysis of the contraband without calling the testing chemist as a witness. At defendant’s trial, the report was admitted over defendant’s objection. The Court of Appeals reversed defendant’s conviction for trafficking in opium by possession, holding that the State failed to establish that defendant waived his constitutional right to confront the witnesses…