Court Opinion

ID: 9785758
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Date Created: 2023-08-30 22:19:47.178934+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T07:36:32.602532
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KESSLER, Judge,
specially concurring.
¶ 11 concur in the result, but not necessarily the reasoning, of the majority. I would not reach the constitutional issue because Dr. Kelly’s testimony, to the extent it is based upon the lab results, would be inadmissible as a “conduit for another non-testifying expert’s opinion”. State v. Lundstrom, 161 Ariz. 141, 148, 776 P.2d 1067, 1074 (1989). In this case, the State did not preserve the record of the contents of the lab results by *393filing a copy of those results with the superi- or court. We must therefore assume that the lab results are the opinions of a non-testifying expert and to that extent, Dr. Kelly’s testimony based on the results would merely be a conduit for those opinions. See State v. Printz, 125 Ariz. 300, 304, 609 P.2d 570, 574 (1980) (if appellant fails to ensure that evidence at issue is part of record on appeal, court will presume missing portions of the record support the action of the trial court).