Paredes v. State
Court of Criminal Appeals of Texas
462 S.W.3d 510 (2015)
Relevant factsFree
Lab director Freeman supervised DNA testing linking blood on Paredes's shirt to a murder victim, personally reviewing the computer-generated testing data and reaching her own conclusion, while the prosecution did not introduce any reports from the individual lab technicians who physically ran the tests and none of them testified.
IssueFree
Whether the admission into evidence of a supervising DNA analyst's opinion regarding a DNA match violates the Confrontation Clause if that opinion is based upon computer-generated data.