[Freedom2specul8]

While searching, I found this..what say ye?
http://www.courttv.com/trials/westerfield/073002_ctv.html

A few minutes later, under questioning by Dusek, Goff said the slip ups made little difference in the ultimate conclusions. And as he had earlier in his testimony, he emphasized to jurors that his was an extremely narrow study of bugs, not a "stopwatch" for determining time of death.

"We're establishing a minimum period of time the insects have been feeding on the body," said Goff.

"Are you establishing a time of death?" asked prosecutor Jeff Dusek. "No, that's outside our area of expertise," said Goff.

[JudyB1938]

Goff did his experiments on PIGS. The real experts did theirs on PEOPLE. I don't know if that makes a difference, but it sounds good. :0)

[wonders]

what say ye? I say Goff's estimates overlapped those of the other three forensic entomologists. I also say Faulkner and Haskell are the most credible experts. I personally wish I could find that DW is guilty. I really have tried. I've even hoped they got the right guy, I can forget about it. But the bugs say they didn't get the right guy. I don't want to think a child-murdering monster is on the loose to butcher yet another innocent tyke while an innocent man faces the death penalty, do you? I don't like it, but it's a fact.

[small_l_libertarian]

The insect expert prosecutors hoped would destroy David Westerfield's chances for acquittal stumbled badly during his turn on the witness stand Tuesday, capping confusing, overly technical testimony with the admission he made basic math errors in his findings.

Madison Lee Goff, one of the most experienced scientists in the small field of forensic entomology, blushed a deep red as a defense lawyer for the man accused of killing Danielle van Dam repeatedly confronted him with five separate errors in data he used to analyze bugs collected at the 7-year-old's autopsy.

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