United States v. Frank Grandlund

POLITZ, Chief Judge:

Frank Grandlund appeals the revocation of his supervised release, asserting a violation of his right to confront adverse witnesses. For the reasons assigned we affirm. Exercising our supervisory powers, we direct implementation of certain practices and procedures to assure the reliability of evidence of laboratory reports in all future revocation actions.

Background

Grandlund was sentenced to three months in prison and three years of supervised release for a failure to appear, 18 U.S.C. § 3146(a)(1). The supervised release began on May 11, 1992.

On December 1, 1993 the…