California Court of Appeal

Defendant's murder conviction is reversed where allowing a physician, who was not present at the victim's autopsy, to testify based on the facts in the report of another doctor who did not appear at trial violated defendant's right of confrontation under the Sixth Amendment.

Appellate Information

• Decided 08/25/2009
• Published 08/25/2009

Judges

• BLEASE, Acting P.J.

Court

• California Court of Appeal

Counsel

• For Appellees:
  
• Ann Hopkins, Oakland, under appointment by the Court of Appeal, for Defendant and Appellant., Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Michael P. Farrell, Senior Assistant Attorney General, David A. Rhodes, Supervising Deputy Attorney General, Daniel B. Bernstein, Deputy Attorney General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.