Court of Appeals for the First Circuit November 14, 1990, 89-1310 (Nicholas P. Manocchio v. John Moran, Director, Department of Corrections)

LEVIN H. CAMPBELL, Circuit Judge.

This appeal presents the question of whether, in a state criminal trial in which the accused is charged with murder and its lesser included offenses, the introduction into evidence of an autopsy report for the purpose of proving the cause of death, without the personal presence of the medical examiner who prepared and executed the report, violates the