An argument by two criminal defendants that their Sixth Amendment right to be confronted with the witnesses against them requires the testimony of the lab technicians who tested their blood for drugs, not just the testimony of the forensic toxicologist who prepared a report on the lab results, has been rejected by a Philadelphia judge.
Philadelphia Municipal Court Judge Bradley K. Moss ruled that defendants Oliver Sally and William Walker would not have their right to be confronted with the witnesses against them violated if only a forensic toxicologist who analyzed the results of the blood tests testified, according to the Jan. 18 opinion written jointly in the cases of Commonwealth v. Sally and Commonwealth v. Walker .
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