Indiana Attorney General Wants Court to Overturn Lab Analyst Ruling

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Indiana Attorney General Wants Court to Overturn Lab Analyst Ruling

By Nina Settappa

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) - The Indiana attorney general's office wants the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn or limit its ruling that requires crime lab analysts to testify in criminal trials.

The office says the ruling could require prosecutors to call lab analysts as witnesses in every case where crime lab reports are relevant. Indiana Attorney General Greg Zoeller says requiring lab analysts to testify would lead to a backlog in lab testing.

The Supreme Court will consider a Virginia case this term questioning whether states can place restrictions on defendants demanding that lab analysts testify in person.

Indiana has joined 24 other states and the District of Columbia in asking the high court to limit its previous ruling or overturn it.

(Copyright 2009 by The Associated Press. All Rights Reserved.)

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