Legal Opinion
United States v. Moon
Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit
Decided January 3, 2008No. 05-4506, 06-1840PublishedCited by 83 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
EASTERBROOK, Chief Judge.
Anthony Alexander and George Moon have been convicted of distributing cocaine and of some ancillary crimes. See 21 U.S.C. § 841. Alexander received a sentence of life imprisonment and Moon of 190 months. The principal question on appeal is whether a chemist violated the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment when testifying that the substance seized from defendants was cocaine.
James DeFranceseo, a chemist employed by the Drug Enforcement Agency, testified that the substance was cocaine. He based this conclusion on the output of two machines: an infrared…
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