Supreme Court of California

The Court of Appeal's reversal of defendant's conviction for second-degree murder, in concluding that defendant's confrontation right was violated, is reversed and remanded where the forensic pathologist's description to the jury of objective facts about the condition of the victim's body, facts he derived from an autopsy report prepared from another pathologist and its accompanying photographs, did not give defendant a right to confront and cross-examine the pathologist who prepared the report.

Appellate Information

• Decided 10/15/2012
• Published 10/15/2012

Judges

• Kennard

Court

• Supreme Court of California

Counsel