Whether a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to be confronted with the witnesses against him

QUESTION PRESENTED FOR REVIEW Whether a defendant is denied his Sixth Amendment right to be confronted with the witnesses against him where a court admits into evidence a certified autopsy report, without requiring the State to present the testimony of the author, and the State then relies on the author’s observations, not just to show cause of death, but as the sole evidence supporting its argument that the defendant fired two shots, where the defendant consistently denies firing two shots, where his denial is supported by each eyewitness and the physical evidence, and where the State’s two-shot theory is crucial to its argument that the defendant committed knowing murder and not a lesser offense. i