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To: CW_Conservative
Thanks for all the work. I'll be posting it soon.

Here's a link I found while reading your posts.

DeathOnLine

1,114 posted on 07/16/2003 10:10:52 AM PDT by Jaded (But I tell you: Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you. Mat. 5:44)
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To: Jaded

LINT BALLS



When the SDPD searched DW's home they found a lint ball in the trash. Embedded within the lint were 18 dog hairs and 3 blond human head hairs.

The following testimony in my opinion casts "REASONABLE DOUBT" on all the dog and human hair evidence for two reasons:

ONE, the testimony from Det. Keene shows DW to only have been home for 30 minutes, before Det. Tallman and Wray approached him. They stayed with him until Keene arrived 20 minutes later.

There was no time for DW to wash and finish drying a load of laundry, therefore he must of cleaned the lint filter BEFORE he started the dryer.

TWO, the testimony from Dulaney depicts the hairs as being "EMBEDDED INSIDE THE LINT", proving that it had come from a load done earlier than Monday Feb. 4th, 2002.



FROM DET. KEENE'S TESTIMONY ON JUNE 11, 2002


THE WITNESS: JOHNNY F. KEENE.

BY MR. DUSEK:

Q: AND WHAT TIME DID YOU RESPOND...?

A: 9:00 O'CLOCK.

Q: WHAT HAPPENED WHEN YOU GOT THERE?

A: WHEN I FIRST ARRIVED...AT THE NORTHEASTERN SUBSTATION, I WAS PROBABLY THERE FOR

ABOUT...TEN, FIFTEEN MINUTES.

AND THEN I WAS ASKED TO RESPOND BACK TO THE SABRE SPRINGS NEIGHBORHOOD.

I WAS TOLD THAT MEMBERS OF OUR SPECIAL INVESTIGATIONS UNIT WAS TALKING WITH

MR. WESTERFIELD IN HIS DRIVEWAY.

ABOUT WHAT TIME DO YOU THINK IT WAS WHEN YOU MADE CONTACT WITH THE DEFENDANT?

A: APPROXIMATELY 9:20, 9:25 MONDAY MORNING.


Q: AND DID HE INDICATE ABOUT WHAT TIME HE GOT HOME?

A: HE SAID HE GOT HOME, HE THOUGHT HE GOT HOME APPROXIMATELY 8:30 MONDAY MORNING.


Q: WHAT DID HE SAY REGARDING THE REST OF HIS MORNING ONCE HE GOT HOME?

A: AGAIN HE STATED THAT HE TOOK A SHOWER, SAID HE DID ONE LOAD OF LAUNDRY.

HE STATED THAT HE HAD THROWN THAT LOAD IN THE DRYER BUT THE DRYER HADN'T

WORKED WELL BECAUSE THE LINT FILTER WAS FULL AND THAT HE HAD CLEANED

THE LINT FILTER AND STARTED THAT LOAD OF LAUNDRY OVER IN THE DRYER.

Q: WHAT DO YOU MEAN CLEAN THE LINT FILTER?

A: HE SAID THE LINT FILTER WAS FULL OF LINT, SO HE PULLED THE LINT FILTER

OUT, CLEANED THE LINT OFF, THREW IT AWAY, AND PUT THE LINT FILTER BACK IN THE DRYER.

Q: THAT WAS BEFORE OR AFTER HE STARTED DOING HIS LAUNDRY?

A: WELL, THAT WAS AFTER THE FIRST LOAD OF LAUNDRY. HE HAD THROWN THAT

LOAD IN THE DRYER AND ATTEMPTED TO DRY IT.



FROM MS. DULANEY'S TESTIMONY ON JUNE 24, 2002


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16 BY MR. CLARKE:

17 MS. DULANEY, I THINK WE HAD LEFT OFF WITH YOU HAD

18 DESCRIBED EXAMINING LINT FROM A TRASH CAN IN MR. WESTERFIELD'S

19 GARAGE, NO. 13, CORRECT?

20 A. YES.

21 Q. DID YOU FIND ANY HAIRS IN THAT LINT?

22 A. YES, I DID.

23 Q. DESCRIBE THEM PLEASE.

24 A. I FOUND THREE HUMAN HAIRS THAT ARE BLOND AND I ALSO

25 FOUND 18 DOG HAIRS.

27 ... THREE HUMAN HAIRS; IS THAT CORRECT?

28 A. THAT'S CORRECT.


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10 Q. NOW, THE THREE HUMAN HAIRS; IN ITEM 13, THE LINT,

11 WHERE WERE THEY FOUND BY YOU IN THE LINT?

12 A. TO EXAMINE THE LINT I HAD TO USE A STEREO

13 MICROSCOPE FOR LOW POWER MAGNIFICATION. THAT'S MAGNIFICATION UP

14 TO 60 TIMES. AND IN ORDER TO LOOK THROUGH THE LINT, I HAD TO

15 TAKE PIECES OF IT AND PUT IT UNDER THE MICROSCOPE AND TEASE IT

16 APART WITH FORCEPS, SO EVERYTHING THAT I FOUND INSIDE THE LINT I

17 FOUND BY TEASING IT APART, SO IT WAS ALL EMBEDDED INSIDE THE LINT.


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13 Q. I THINK YOU ALSO SAID THAT IN THE LINT YOU FOUND

14 ANIMAL HAIRS; IS THAT CORRECT?

15 A. THAT'S CORRECT.

16 Q. HOW MANY?

17 A. I FOUND 18 ANIMAL HAIRS.

1,115 posted on 07/16/2003 11:36:56 AM PDT by CW_Conservative
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To: Jaded

Look at the authors of the following book that is basically the Bible of Forensic Entomology. These are the most respected people in the field. Which is why the jurors ignored them. They didn't want to be confused by the facts.

Entomological Evidence:
The Utility of Arthropods in Legal Investigations

CRC Press, September 2000. Sold at every bookseller (ISBN 0849381207).

Chapter 1
Current Perceptions and Status of Forensic Entomology

Robert D. Hall, Ph.D, J.D.
Department of Entomology
1-87 Agr Building
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65201

Chapter 3
Entomotoxicology

and M. L. Goff, Ph.D.
Department of Entomology
3050 Maile Way
University of Hawaii at Manoa
Honolulu, HI. 96822

Chapter 6
Protocol for Collecting Entomological Evidence in Legal Investigations

Neal H. Haskell, Ph.D.
425 Kannal Ave.
Rensselaer, Indiana. 47978

Chapter 9
The Forensic Entomologist as Expert Witness: Law Ethics and the Adversarial Process

Robert D. Hall, Ph.D.
Department of Entomology
1-87 Agr Building
University of Missouri, Columbia, Missouri 65201

Chapter 13
The Accumulated Degree Hour Approach for Postmortem Interval Estimations

Neal H. Haskell, Ph.D.
425 Kannal Ave.
Rensselaer, Indiana. 47978


Oh, here is another name you might recognize, the jurors ignored him too.

Newsgroups: bit.listserv.dorothyl
Date: 1998/05/18

David Faulkner will discuss the role of forensic entomology in murder
investigations in "Bodies and Bugs" at the next meeting of the Los
Angeles Chapter of Sisters in Crime on Sunday, June 7, 2 pm, South
Pasadena Public Library Community Room, 1115 El Centro St., S.
Pasadena.

Faulkner, an entomologist at the Insect Lab of the San Diego Natural
History Museum, consults with homicide detectives to determine the
time or site of a murder by the presence of insects. He is one of
only twenty-five specialists in the United States called by the
District Attorney to testify in court.

The meeting offers a Q & A session with Faulkner as well as a special
appearance by Gerald Schiller who will read from his first mystery
novel, DEADLY DREAMS. Free to members, $5 non-members. Open to the
public. Call (213)694-2972 for further information.
1,116 posted on 07/16/2003 11:53:35 AM PDT by CW_Conservative
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