Convicted murderer Reynaldo Dungo is getting a retrial, but killers Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt are not, all because two California appellate courts issued rulings one week apart that reached completely opposite conclusions on a crucial Sixth Amendment issue. In both cases, the defendants had argued that expert testimony violated their Sixth Amendment right to confrontation because the coroners who testified, one on an autopsy and one on drug tests, weren't present when the procedures were performed.
August 27, 2009 at 12:00 AM
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The original version of this story was published on Law.Com
Convicted murderer Reynaldo Dungo is getting a retrial, but killers Helen Golay and Olga Rutterschmidt are not.
And all because two California state appellate courts issued rulings one week apart that reached completely opposite conclusions on a crucial Sixth Amendment issue.
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