Defendant’s vehicular manslaughter conviction is reversed where the admission into evidence of a blood alcohol laboratory report violated defendant’s constitutional right to confrontation of witnesses by allowing testimonial hearsay evidence prohibited under Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004).
Read People v. Lopez, No. D052885A
Appellate Information
Filed August 31, 2009
Judges
Opinion by Judge McDonald
Counsel
For Appellant: Janice R. Mazur
For Respondent:
Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Lynne McGinnis and Gil Gonzalez, Deputy Attorneys General
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