Garrett v. State

OPINION

Evelyn V. Keyes, Justice

A jury convicted appellant, Bradley Garrett, of the first-degree felony offense of murder and assessed his punishment at thirty years’ confinement.1 In his sole issue on appeal, appellant contends that the trial court erred by admitting the testimony and report of the DNA analyst in violation of the Confrontation Clause because the analysts who performed the extraction and amplification of the DNA samples did not testify.

We affirm.

Background

Appellant occasionally worked as an unarmed security guard at the H20 after-hours nightclub in southwest Houston. In the…