216 Md. App. 492 - Malaska v. State’s Empirical Analysis

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8 state decisions

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1. “The report ... is a two page document indicating, among other things, when the report was created, what items were tested, what procedures were used to develop the results, and the DNA results developed from the testing. Nowhere on either page of the report, however, is there an indication that the results are sworn to or certified or that any person attests to the accuracy of the results. Although [the report was developed] at the request of the Baltimore City Police Department, [the report] is not the result of any formalized police interrogation.”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. 217 Md. App. 388 - Norton v. State

2. “based on confrontation rights,” citing Fuller , which, as we have discussed, concerns the more limited confrontation right afforded to probationers. The State does not dispute that Blanks had confrontation rights at his probation revocation hearing that stem from the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment. His objection below adequately preserved the question whether Exhibit 2 was admissible under the strict Crawford standard or under the less stringent standard for admission of”

   1 later decision quote this exact passage · from the concurrence
   e.g. Blanks v. State