Apparently prosecutors don’t like criminal defense attorneys to cross-examine forensic scientists. They’d rather just have a piece of paper in court that can’t be cross-examined. To that goal the recent Melendez-Diaz decision is up for review.
Prosecutors hope that the new Justice Sotomayor (an ex-prosecutor herself) will side with them, throw due process out the window
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