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IN THE COURT OF APPEALS OF THE STATE OF NEW MEXICO
2 STATE OF NEW MEXICO,
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Plaintiff-Appellee,
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v. NO. 27,867
5 SCOTT D. JOHNSON,
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Defendant-Appellant.

7 APPEAL FROM THE DISTRICT COURT OF LEA COUNTY
8 Don Maddox, District Judge

9 Gary K. King, Attorney General 10 Santa Fe, NM 11 Joel Jacobsen, Assistant Attorney General 12 Albuquerque, NM
13 for Appellee
14 Hugh W. Dangler, Chief Public Defender 15 Eleanor Brogan, Assistant Appellate Defender 16 Santa Fe, NM
17 for Appellant
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MEMORANDUM OPINION 19 WECHSLER, Judge. 20
Defendant Scott Johnson appeals from his conviction of trafficking a controlled 21
substance as an accessory. On appeal, Defendant argues that (1) the district court 22 erred in admitting a forensic crime laboratory report created by the New Mexico
Department of Public Safety (DPS) into evidence as an exception to the hearsay rule,
(2) his constitutional right to confrontation was violated when one DPS laboratory analyst was permitted to offer testimony based on the DPS laboratory report in question in place of the analyst who actually created the report, (3) the State failed to introduce sufficient evidence to support his conviction, and (4) his attorney provided ineffective assistance of counsel. We conclude that the district court committed no reversible error and that sufficient evidence was presented to support Defendant

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