Opinion ID: 820508
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Heading: Pseudoephedrine Logs

Text: Wells argues that the admission of the pseudoephedrine logs violates the Confrontation Clause of the Sixth Amendment, citing Melendez-Diaz v. -5- Massachusetts, 557 U.S. 305 (2009). Melendez-Diaz held that the admission of laboratory reports via “certificates of analysis” violated the Confrontation Clause because the certificates fell within the “class of testimonial statements” described in Crawford v. Washington, 541 U.S. 36 (2004). Melendez-Diaz, 557 U.S. at 309-310. In United States v. Mashek, 606 F.3d 922 (8th Cir. 2010), we rejected the same argument made here. We held that Melendez Diaz did not preclude the admission of pseudoephedrine logs because they constituted non-testimonial business records under Federal Rule of Evidence 803(6). Mashek, 606 F.3d at 930. The same analysis applies here, and the district court thus properly admitted the logs.