Supreme Court of Florida
State of Florida v. Johnson, SC06-86
The admission of a Florida Department of Law Enforcement lab report establishing the illegal nature of substances possessed by a defendant violates the confrontation clause and Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004), when the person who performed the lab test does not testify.
Appellate Information
- Decided 05/01/2008
- Published 05/01/2008
Judges
- QUINCE, J.
Court
- Supreme Court of Florida
Counsel
- For Appellant:
- Bill McCollum, Attorney General, Tallahassee, FL, and Robert J. Krauss, Assistant Attorney General, Bureau Chief, and Marilyn Muir Beccue, Assistant Attorney General, Tampa, FL, for Petitioner.
- For Appellees:
- James Marion Moorman, Public Defender, and William L. Sharwell, Assistant Public Defender, Tenth Judicial Circuit, Bartow, FL, for Respondent.