State v. Laturner

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• invalidating that portion of Kansas’s former notice-and-demand statute that required the defendant to demonstrate the grounds for his objection to the admission of a certificate in lieu of live testimony and his intent to actually cross-examine the witness at trial
• observing \the right of confrontation 'falls into the class of rights that defense counsel can waive through strategic decisions\'
• relying on Melendez-Diaz in finding a Kansas statute unconstitutional where it authorized the admission of a sworn forensic lab report in lieu of the preparer’s in-court testimony
• relying on Melendez-Diaz in finding a Kansas statute unconstitutional where it authorized the admission of a sworn forensic lab report in lieu of the preparer s in-court testimony
• constitutionality of 15 statutes presents question of law over which Supreme Court exercises unlimited review
• the right of confrontation falls into the class of rights that defense counsel can waive through strategic decisions, such as by stipulating to the admission of evidence

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