Bugs: The Best Witnesses? (Westerfield's Son Neal Forced To Testify By Desperate D.A. Dusek!!)

Court TV ^ | July 25, 2002 | Harriet Ryan

[spectre]

OK, it wasn't me, I live in Arkansas..FRES? Was that you? LOL!

[Stiv]

Regading my post #657: I do not know if the police had already examined the chip when Damon put the magnet on it.

[demsux]

He's got to be the teacher guy from Andy Griffith...can't remember his name

[demsux]

bump

[It's me]

Ah, but how do we know you are actually there right now? HMMM? Are you trying to set up an alibi?

[demsux]

bump

[spectre]

I think DeeJay nailed it, has to be someone with Rick Robert's connections. He's real sleeze on this case.

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[the Deejay]

Very good "paraphrasing" you did there. That's very close to what he said.

[demsux]

C'mon give me the award...

[calawah98]

It was NINJA DAVE, riding his trusty stead, the ANT

[mommya]

I don't know if the alarm chip is destroyed now or not - but it was in private hands - and whoever had it would not turn it over to Feldman - the judge upheld that they did not have to - seems fair - huh?

[the Deejay]

As the judge was telling what happened, RR came to mind FIRST and FOREMOST. Not even anyone connected with CTV would stoop that low.

[Freedom2specul8]

That's true and feldman pointed out and witness agreed that sun and shade can cause differential decomposition. Sounds like a logical conclusion! ..

" Posted by ~Kim4VRWC's~ to ~Kim4VRWC's~ On News/Activism Jul 25 4:07 PM #558 of 657 you can have conditions where partial mummification.. favorable environment is where yoiu have relative humidity, 50% humidity or more, humid conditoins....can get marine something... ???? Shade trees will help keep temps more stable, body in shade will decompose "slower"..if part of body is exposed to sun and another part isn't..it will be differential decomposition."

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connectthedots..exactly, but if that area dehydrated as fast as this newest witness suggested could have happened (within 24 hrs)....cuz it had the right circumstances, it totally refutes the dates of the bug guy.

If a rodent or animal chewed through the mummified skin, as this witness is suggesting could have happened...hypothetically, on the 9th...bingo..defense's defense is put into doubt.

[ernie pantuso]

You are correct that the jury will determine the credibility. But, you are forgetting two things: 1. the STATE hired Faulkner specifically to establish TOD as 2/2-2/4. When he could not do that, they chose not to call him as a witness, and 2. the State is in REBUTTAL phase of case. This is not their case-in-chief. Obviously, they are worried about defense's bug experts or else they would not be trying to rebut(actually, confuse the jury)regarding time that Danielle's body was placed at Dehesa. If the State had such powerful witnesses/evidence to establish TOD in the 2/2-2/4 range, they certainly would have presented such during their case-in-chief.

I have been predominantly a lurker on these threads since the trial began(I have not formed an opinion re: guilty/not guilty), but it has been my observation that an overwhelming number of "DW is guilty" posters have never questioned the plausibility of any State hypothesis/theory/witness regardless of the weakness of same.

[John Jamieson]

I think he put the magnet on the door sensor, not the computer chip. I know of no modern computer chips that can be erased or damaged by a magnet.

[Freedom2specul8]

ON no that's AWFUL SPUNKY....what is wrong with these idiots!

[connectthedots]

You did not miss anything, what is missing is any reasonable explanation for the prosectutions theory of the crime.

The prosecution is asking the jury to believe that Danielle was virtually instantly (less than two days) mummified upon death and deposited at Dehesa and that for some unfathomable reason, the blow flies could not find the body for 10-14 days; but then offers up an explanation that if the blow flies did find the body right away, that ONE ant ate all the fly larva for at least 10 days and which time the number of blow larvi overwhelmed the ability of ONE ant to keep feeding fast enough to prevent the complete developement of blow fly larva 10 days later.

The prosecution's assertions are preposterous.

[truth_seeker]

Damon destroyed the alarm chip....

Never heard that before. Can you support it with evidence? Was it testified as so, in the courtroom?

In the preliminary hearing, Damon said he wanted to "test" the alarm chip to see if it could be neutralized, so he stuck a child's magnet on it and sure enough it caused the device not to work. It also had a second effect, i.e., the magnetization at the very least would have wiped the chip clean and at worst have completely screwed it up.

That doesn't support the notion that he "destroyed" the chip, as if it were some intentional destruction of evidence. Regardless, for the purpose of this criminal case, it will need to be introduced by the defendant's attorney, insofar as your citation comes from the PH (preliminary hearing), which is not evidence in this trial.

BTW, it appears your PH "writing" is a paraphrasing and interpretation exercize, not the actual transcript. Correct?

[demsux]

More Feldmanization taking place...maggots could get into a mummified body through natural orifices.