[Locomotive Breath]

Howlin has been telling us that the private lab was running the same tests as the SBI. Nifong has been saying for some time that the defense lawyers were not saying all they knew about the SBI DNA tests. Maybe the SBI previously got the exact same result as the private lab and the defense didn't talk about it. Thus the tendency of Nifong to characterize the SBI DNA result as "inconclusive".

We know that the private lab did not get a perfect match with 100% certainty. As someone else posted upthread, perhaps the SBI has a higher standard for what constitutes a "match" as opposed to the private lab.

Perhaps all this has been known to both Nifong and the defense for some time and Nifong simply needed the private lab to call it a "match" when the SBI wouldn't?

[darbymcgill]

Perhaps all this has been known to both Nifong and the defense for some time and Nifong simply needed the private lab to call it a "match" when the SBI wouldn't?

Do you recall when the first DNA results were known? Was it before or after the photo lineup?

[Howlin]

Remember in the first defense press conference when they said that there was a small amount of "material" that was "inconclusive?"

I think it's the same "matter."