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People v. Lopez, No. D052885A

By FindLaw Staff on September 02, 2009 | Last updated on March 21, 2019

Defendant's vehicular manslaughter conviction is reversed where the admission into evidence of a blood alcohol laboratory report violated defendant's constitutional right to confrontation of witnesses by allowing testimonial hearsay evidence prohibited under Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004).   

Read People v. Lopez, No. D052885A

Appellate Information

Filed August 31, 2009

Judges

Opinion by Judge McDonald

Counsel

For Appellant:  Janice R. Mazur

For Respondent:

Edmund G. Brown, Jr., Attorney General, Dane R. Gillette, Chief Assistant Attorney General, Gary W. Schons, Assistant Attorney General, Lynne McGinnis and Gil Gonzalez, Deputy Attorneys General

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