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To: JudyB1938
Convict. Short answer=I believe the hard physical evidence cannot be explained without assuming she was abducted by Westerfield. I believe the defenses explanation's of the presense of the that evidence is so remotely possible its impossible. I believe the fly folks have overstated the ability of their science to demonstrate they can determine a maximum date and that after this case there will be some harder peer review like studies of the science and better conrolled studies done with varying environments.
93 posted on 08/02/2002 11:40:44 AM PDT by VRWC_minion
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To: VRWC_minion
Well, I certainly agree that indepth studies are forthcoming - at least they should be. My faith in forensics has been completely shattered. It is not the science I always thought it to be.

But I do believe those bugmen.

And my distrust of cops and prosecutors has been re-affirmed in the antics I've seen them pull in what I consider to be a railroading of an innocent man.
94 posted on 08/02/2002 11:47:14 AM PDT by JudyB1938
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To: VRWC_minion
hard physical evidence cannot be explained

It is indirect circumstantial evidence and it has been very reasonably explained. The fibers by reasonable doubt as to the matchup, and that fibers easily could have come from other sources. The fiber is also explained -- if they demonstrated to match beyond a reasonable doubt, which they have not -- by direct or secondary contact between Brenda and Westerfield on the dance floor, or by ANY of the visits of Brenda and Danielle to the house, or by an entirely reasonably plausible sneak visit of Danielle into the motorhome in any of the many months more than a year it was available to neighborhood kids to do so. The last also explains the DNA-bearing spots, or those could be explained by deliberate -- and felonious -- evidence contamination.

The many irregularities in police procedure give some reasonable credence to the felonious police work possibility, but even that possibility is not necessary to reasonably explain the DNA spots and the hair.

Further the exceptional agreement of the bug experts in determining the most likely date the body was dropped -- when Westerfield was under a high degree of police scrutiny. Ignoring that -- as to reasonable doubt -- is an egregious violation of a juror's sworn duty

105 posted on 08/02/2002 12:12:38 PM PDT by bvw
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