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Rollo A. Barker, aka Rollo Narker v. New Jersey
Paid petition · Superior Court of New Jersey, Appellate Division, No. A-1512-19 · judgment April 13, 2023
Before the decision, well below the 4.1% base rate, with no standout signals pointing toward a grant.
Question presented
Does testimony from a lab analyst who did not perform the actual testing on Defendant’s seized (alleged) contraband that was analyzed by a State Police Laboratory, and further cannot remember whether or not she supervised the non-certified analyst who performed the actual testing on said contraband, violate the United States Constitution’s 6th Amendment confrontation clause, and therefore also contra to the tenets of Melendez-Diaz v. Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305 (2009) and its well-settled progeny.
Counsel of record
For petitioner
Daniel Gerard Petoia Marchese
The Marchese Law Firm, LLC
For respondent
Tiffany Marie Russo
Morris County Prosecutor' s Office
Case
Conference history
Distributed for 2 conferences
Proceedings
- Jun 17 2024Petition DENIED.
- May 29 2024Reply of petitioner Rollo Barker filed. (Distributed)
- May 28 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 6/13/2024.
- May 10 2024Brief of respondent New Jersey in opposition filed.
- Apr 11 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including May 13, 2024.
- Apr 09 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response from April 12, 2024 to May 13, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
- Mar 06 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is further extended to and including April 12, 2024.
- Mar 05 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response from March 13, 2024 to April 12, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
- Feb 08 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response is granted and the time is extended to and including March 13, 2024.
- Feb 07 2024Motion to extend the time to file a response from February 12, 2024 to March 13, 2024, submitted to The Clerk.
- Jan 11 2024Response Requested. (Due February 12, 2024)
- Jan 03 2024DISTRIBUTED for Conference of 1/19/2024.
- Dec 27 2023Waiver of right of respondent New Jersey to respond filed.
- Sep 26 2023Petition for a writ of certiorari filed. (Response due January 2, 2024)