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Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court· 12/15/2011

Commonwealth v. Munoz

Citations

  • 461 Mass. 126
  • 958 N.E.2d 1167
  • 2011 Mass. LEXIS 1155

How courts have described this case

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  • holding that an expert who offers an independent opinion based on another analyst’s report can be meaningfully cross-examined “on the general risk of error in forensic testing”
  • holding that an expert who offers an independent opinion based on another analyst's report can be meaningfully cross-examined \on the general risk of error in forensic testing\
  • \[T]he Constitution has not yet been construed to require the testimony of every person who might conceivably have compromised the reliability of the evidence introduced against a defendant.\
  • “[T]he Constitution has not yet been construed to require the testimony of every person who might conceivably have compromised the reliability of the evidence introduced against a defendant.”
  • “Our cases . . . distinguish^ between a substitute analyst’s testimony as to independent opinions based on data generated by a nontestify-ing analyst, and a substitute analyst’s testimony as to the testing analyst’s reports and conclusions”
  • “[A] substitute analyst, basing an independent opinion on data generated by a prior analyst, can be cross-examined on many of the specific risks that could lead to an erroneous conclusion concerning the identity and weight of a substance at issue in a particular case.”

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Judges: Ireland, Spina, Cordy, Botsford, Gants, Duffly, Lenk

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