High court lab analyst case fizzles out 

Posted: 1:00 am Mon, February 8, 2010
By Kimberly Atkins

It looked like a potential blockbuster. Just four days after handing down a closely-split ruling — complete with an emphatic dissent — requiring forensic lab analysts to be available to testify in criminal trials if their lab reports are entered into evidence, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in another case that promised to test ...