State v. Miller

State of Maryland v. Oliver Miller, No. 24, September Term, 2020. Opinion by Biran, J. CONSTITUTIONAL LAW – ARTICLE 21 OF THE MARYLAND DECLARATION OF RIGHTS – SIXTH AMENDMENT OF THE UNITED STATES CONSTITUTION – RIGHT OF ACCUSED TO CONFRONT WITNESSES – The Court of Appeals held that a trial court does not violate a criminal defendant’s rights to confrontation and cross-examination, where the court allows the technical reviewer of a report analyzing DNA evidence to testify about the results of that analysis, without requiring the primary author of the report to be available for cross-…