Court Opinion

ID: 9551266
Source: CourtListenerOpinion
Date Created: 2023-08-07 18:50:22.33757+00
Date Added: 2024-06-11T15:23:25.049548
License: Public Domain

HERNANDEZ, Judge (specially concurring) . I concur in the opinion of Judge Lopez, with the exception that I concur only in the result on defendant’s point two, exclusion of the state police laboratory reports. The interpretation in the opinion of Rule of Evidence 803(8)(C) [§ 20-4-803(8)(C), N.M.S.A.1953 (Repl. Vol. 4, Supp.1975)] is not necessary to the holding. Defendant’s voluntary waiver of his opportunity to lay a foundation for the admission of the state police laboratory reports is a sufficient ground for holding that there was no error in the exclusion of the reports.