State v. Dunsmore

The issues in this case are (1) whether the introduction in evidence of the result of a blood test without having the persons who took the sample and conducted the test present at the defendant’s trial violated his right to confrontation, and (2) whether evidence of the result of the test was erroneously admitted when, although defendant had been given notice in accordance with RSA 262-A:69-c that he had a right to have a test made by a person of his own choosing, there was no evidence that he had been “afforded ... an opportunity to request an additional test.”

On September 4, 1971, a blood…