208 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Hurt’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “[W]e do not discuss Lantz’s testimony to the non-testifying pathologist’s autopsy findings at great length. For, even if Lantz’s recitation of stab wounds visually observed by [the nontestifying expert] and listed in the latter’s report are considered a type of testimonial forensic evidence contemplated by Melendez-Diaz , his description of [the victim’s] stab wounds was not prejudicial. Several responding officers and EMS personnel also testified to the wounds they personally observed, and several photographs of the victim’s body were published .to the jury for inspection. Moreover, Lantz’s opinion testimony regarding the impact of the various wounds and the time it would have taken for [the victim] to lose consciousness was clearly based, not on the report at all, but on his own independent experience as a pathologist.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 212 N.C. App. 1 - State v. Hartley

2. “in determining the availability of constitutional procedural protections in specific contexts, the proper focus is on the essential characteristics of the procedure at issue and not on the incommensurate punitive measures different defendants may face at those otherwise similar stages.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the dissent
   e.g. Vankirk v. State