Commonwealth v. Carter

OPINION

Justice EAKIN.

We granted allowance of appeal to determine whether a state police laboratory report falls under the business record exception to the hearsay rule, see Pa.R.E. 803(6), so as to be admissible when the person who made the report is unavailable for cross-examination at trial.

Appellee was charged with possession of a controlled substance with intent to deliver (PWID). He filed a motion to suppress the evidence, which the trial court denied. At appellee’s bench trial, the court admitted into evidence, over appellee’s objection, the police crime laboratory report which…