State v. Rozerick E. Mattox

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REBECCA GRASSL BRADLEY, J.

The court of appeals certified this case to the court to determine whether the admission of a toxicology report through a medical examiner's testimony violated Rozerick E. Mattox's Sixth Amendment right to confrontation. After a bench trial,1 Mattox was convicted of first-degree reckless homicide for delivering heroin that caused S.L.'s death.2 Specifically, the certified question asks:

Does it violate a defendant's rights under the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment to the United States Constitution for the State to introduce at trial a toxicology report…