State v. Garlick

ADKINS, Judge.

We revisit today a question we addressed four years ago in Moon v. State, 300 Md. 354, 478 A.2d 695 (1984), cert. denied, 469 U.S. 1207, 105 S.Ct. 1170, 84 L.Ed.2d 321 (1985): Is the constitutional right of confrontation violated by the admission into evidence of a hospital record containing laboratory test results unless the technician who conducted the test is produced as a witness? In Moon, we answered the question in the affirmative. We do not retreat from our holding in Moon, but because of substantial differences between the record in that case and this, we here respond to…