State v. Ramirez

*456¶ 1 Daniel Galeana Ramirez (Galeana Ramirez), Alejandro Ramirez (Ramirez), and Steven Nicolas Russell (Russell) appeal their multiple convictions. They argue that the trial court violated their right of confrontation by not allowing them to confront the technician who extracted the data from Russell's cell phone found at the scene of one of the incidents that led to a conviction. In the published portion of the opinion, we hold that the confrontation clause did not require testimony from the technician because he was not a "witness against" the appellants. In the unpublished portion of the…