Nicholas P. Manocchio v. John Moran, Director, Department of Corrections

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• expressing doubts as to whether autopsy reports fall within a “firmly rooted” hearsay exception
• subjecting material which creates Sixth Amendment Confrontation Clause problems to harmless error analysis
• confrontation clause requires reliability in order to admit hearsay; reliability can be demonstrated by showing particularized guarantees of trustworthiness
• “Rule 703 reflects a recognition of the expert’s integrity and specialized skill, which ‘will keep him from basing his opinion on questionable matter.’”

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).