Jenkins v. United States

My colleagues in the majority conclude that appellant Jenkins is entitled to reversal of his first-degree murder and other convictions on the ground that the admission of DNA testimony by an expert who relayed the underlying laboratory analysts’ findings without the laboratory analysts having been called to testify violated appellant’s rights under the Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause, and constituted reversible error. On the facts of this case, I cannot agree. Neither Supreme Court jurisprudence nor our own case law requires the result my colleagues reach, and, in my view, reversal of…