“Using a droplet of the unknown individual’s blood recovered from the handle of a freezer,”
“Detectives focused on Stough, who they said had worked at the convenience store for some time before Paquette.”
Not hard to see what the defense is going to do with that.
Umm... I cut my hand while I worked there, opened that door and forgot to wipe off my blood?
Since he worked there, it’s plausible that the blood was left there at another time. This will a difficult conviction.
Depends on how long a gap was between their employment. It said he worked there before the victim. By how much? Years? Months? Hours?