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Sanders v. Commonwealth
No. 101870Supreme Court of Virginia
101870 Sanders v. Commonwealth 06/09/2011 In a prosecution for forcible sodomy, rape, object sexual penetration, and taking indecent liberties with a child under the age of 13, there was no violation of the de…
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101870 Sanders v. Commonwealth 06/09/2011 In a prosecution for forcible sodomy, rape, object sexual penetration, and taking indec…
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101870 Sanders v. Commonwealth 06/09/2011 In a prosecution for forcible sodomy, rape, object sexual penetration, and taking indecent liberties with a child under the age of 13, there was no violation of the defendant's Confrontation Clause rights when the trial court permitted the state's medical witness to testify to her diagnosis that the child had the same sexually transmitted disease as her father, based in part on a California laboratory report of samples taken from the child which was not admitted in evidence. Under the circumstances of this case -- in which there was no evidence that the out-of-state medical laboratory understood that its test results were intended for use in the pro…
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