California Supreme Court· 10/15/2012

People v. Lopez

Citations

55 Cal. 4th 569
286 P.3d 469
147 Cal. Rptr. 3d 559
2012 WL 4856705
2012 Cal. LEXIS 9718

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holding that “machine-generated printouts . . . did not implicate the Sixth Amendment’s right to confrontation”
finding no confrontation violation where analyst testified based on colleague’s blood alcohol report and testing because report was unsigned and consisted entirely of chain of custody log and machine-generated test data
finding no confrontation violation where analyst testified based on colleague’s blood alcohol report and testing because report was unsigned and consisted entirely of chain of custody log and machine-generated test data
In addition to an unsettled primary purpose, “to be testimonial the out-of-court statement must have been made with some degree of formality or solemnity.” (citations omitted)
to be testimonial, a statement “must have been made with some degree of formality or solemnity,” and its “primary purpose [must] pertai[n] in some fashion to a criminal prosecution”
noting agreement with federal courts

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Judges: Corrigan, Kennard, Liu, Werdegar

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