"Criminal Prosecutors Pin Hopes On Sotomayor"

DEBORAH AMOS, Host:

Today, the U.S. Supreme Court revisits an issue it appeared to resolve just months ago, and that issue is crime labs. The question is whether the prosecution in criminal cases has a constitutional duty to produce crime lab analysts to testify about their findings. NPR's legal affairs correspondent Nina Totenberg reports.

NINA TOTENBERG: Nina Totenberg, NPR News, Washington.