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PEOPLE v. LOPEZ

No. S177046.

55 Cal.4th 569 (2012)

147 Cal. Rptr. 3d 559

286 P.3d 469

THE PEOPLE, Plaintiff and Respondent, v. VIRGINIA HERNANDEZ LOPEZ, Defendant and Appellant.

Supreme Court of California.

October 15, 2012.

Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Janice R. Mazur , under appointment by the Supreme Court, for Defendant and Appellant.

Edmund G. Brown, Jr. , and Kamala D. Harris , Attorneys General, Dane R. Gillette , Chief Assistant Attorney General, Donald E. DeNicola , Deputy State Solicitor General, Gary W. Schons and Julie L. Garland , Assistant Attorneys General, Steven T. Oetting , Daniel Bernstein , Michael Chamberlain , Lynne G. McGinnis and Gil Gonzalez , Deputy Attorneys General, for Plaintiff and Respondent.

W. Scott Thorpe ; and Albert C. Locher , Assistant District Attorney (Sacramento) for California District Attorneys Association as Amicus Curiae on behalf of Plaintiff and Respondent.

Dolores A. Carr , District Attorney (San Jose) and John Chase , Deputy District Attorney, for California Association of Crime Laboratory Directors as Amicus Curiae.

OPINION

KENNARD, J. —

The Sixth Amendment of the United States Constitution grants a criminal defendant the right to confront adverse witnesses. That right is at issue in a trio of cases before us. (The two companion cases are People v. Dungo (2012) 55 Cal.4th 608, and People v. Rutterschmidt (2012) 55 Cal.4th 650.) Each involves the constitutionality...

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