United States v. Allen

Opinion of the Court

FLETCHER, Chief Judge:

This case involves a conviction of attempted rape and oral and anal sodomy.1 *346At the request of the treating doctor certain specimens were taken for laboratory analysis during the examination of the victim. The evaluation reports of these samples were offered by the prosecution and admitted by the court as business record exceptions to the hearsay rule. We are called upon to answer whether it was prejudicial error to admit these exhibits as evidence of the truth of the matters stated therein, over the objection made by the defense counsel. We find that…