Commonwealth v. Parenteau

How courts have described this case

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• reasoning that the certificate at issue was testimonial because it proved “an essential element of the charged crime”
• a judge must carefully examine each record at issue to “determine” whether the record is testimonial
• where document is subsequently created by agency to establish fact at trial, it is testimonial and violates confrontation clause even though document is based on preexisting agency records

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).