People v. Lopez
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Defendant was charged with vehicular manslaughter while intoxicated after her vehicle collided with another, killing its driver. To prove intoxication, the prosecution at trial introduced into evidence a laboratory analyst's report on the percentage of alcohol in a blood sample taken from Defendant two hours after the accident. The analyst did not testify, but a colleague did. A jury found Defendant guilty as charged. The court of appeal reversed, holding that the admission of the nontestifying analyst's laboratory report and the colleague's testimony relating some of the report's contents violated Defendant's right to confront and cross-examine the report's author. The Supreme Court reversed, holding that the nontestifying analyst's laboratory report was not testimonial in nature, and the trial court did not err in permitting the prosecution to introduce that portion of the report into evidence, and in permitting the colleague to testify regarding it.
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