Defendant’s drug conviction is reversed, where the trial court’s admission of the prosecution’s certificates by laboratory analysts, stating that material seized by police and connected to Defendant was cocaine of a certain quantity, violated petitioner’s Sixth Amendment right to confront the witnesses against him.
Read Melendez-Diaz v. Mass., No. 07-591
Appellate Information
Argued November 10, 2008
Decided June 25, 2009
Judges
Scalia, J. delivered the opinion of the Court.
Kennedy, J., filed a dissenting opinion.
Counsel
For Petitioner:
Jeffrey L. Fisher, Stanford Law School, Stanford, CA
For Respondent:
James J. Arguin, Assistant Attorney General, Boston, MA
Martha Coakley, Attorney General, Boston, MA
Susanne G. Reardon, Office of the Attorney General, Boston, MA
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