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Prosecutors To Finish Rebuttal With Forensic Expert

Judge Again Refuses To Sequester Jury

POSTED: 6:57 a.m. PDT July 30, 2002

UPDATED: 7:02 a.m. PDT July 30, 2002

SAN DIEGO -- The rebuttal case against accused child killer David Westerfield is expected to end today after prosecutors put a forensic expert from Hawaii on the stand.

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M. Lee Goff, a professor of forensic sciences in Hawaii, is expected to testify about when Danielle van Dam's body was dumped off a road in Dehesa. The 7-year-old girl was reported missing from her Sabre Springs home on the morning of Feb. 2. Searchers discovered her body on Feb. 27.

Westerfield, 50, is charged with murder, kidnapping and special circumstance allegations that could lead to the death penalty if he's convicted of killing the 7-year-old. He is also charged with misdemeanor possession of child pornography.

Monday, Judge William Mudd rejected another defense request to sequester the jury. But he said jurors could still be sequestered, and he asked the county to prepare a plan in case it becomes necessary.

Dusek's nightmare

"I have plotted the data here in 4 dimensions, using time, temperature, dewpoint, and solar insolance, using a 5 sigma probablity matrix and 16 polynominal regression analysis. I gathered weather data from three geometrically obtuse locations using GPS and NWS data, corrected for distance and wind direction, velocity, and turbulance. Using the exact altitude of the Dehesa location, we can see here that the first 2 duds were right."

Has anybody brought up the possible connection between no sequestration and Mudd's desire to take a vacation mid trial?

Mudd couldn't very well go on vacation with a sequestered jury, could he?

More appeal bait.

Police search for missing 4-year-old

Odessa American | 7/30/02 | Unnamed

Posted on 07/30/2002 1:01 PM Eastern by NerdDad

About 150 searchers fought stormy weather to look for a 4-year-old Pecos boy Monday evening after he was reported missing. Schyler Lee Fain was last seen a little before 11 a.m., Department of Public Safety officials said. He was in the care of his grandmother. Fort Stockton police, Pecos County Sheriff’s deputies, DPS troopers, a DPS seargent and a DPS helicopter all helped in the search for the missing boy. Fain was last known to be wearing a Navy blue Nike T-shirt with white letters and a red Nike Swoosh and underwear. The boy was believed to be barefooted. Officials were still searching for the boy at 10 p.m. Monday.