Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
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melendez-diaz-v-massachusetts-178-1188705
title:
Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts
text:
Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305 (2009), is a United States Supreme Court case in which the Court held that it was a violation of the Sixth Amendment right of confrontation for a prosecutor to submit a chemical drug test report without the testimony of the person who performed the test. While the court ruled that the then-common practice of submitting these reports without testimony was unconstitutional, it also held that so called "notice-and-demand" statutes are constitutional. A s
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2009 United States Supreme Court case
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melendez-Diaz_v._Massachusetts
date created:
2009-06-25T15:43:51Z
date modified:
2024-09-04T20:40:33Z
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