Posted on 07/03/2002 3:36:43 PM PDT by FresnoDA
David A. Westerfield, 50, is charged with kidnapping and killing 7-year-old Danielle van Dam. He is also charged with misdemeanor possession of child pornography. Prosecutors have said the 80 or so images of child pornography taken from Westerfield's home indicate sexual interest in children.Defense attorneys are trying to show that the defendant is not responsible for the pornographic images -- including those of young children -- found on his computer equipment.
David A. Westerfield, a 50-year-old self-employed design engineer, is on trial for the kidnapping and murder of 7-year-old Danielle van Dam.
Lawson told jurors that he examined copies of hard drives, zip disks and compact disks made by police and took numerous screen captures -- essentially photographs of what came up on the computer monitor at a given time.
Defense attorney Steven Feldman asked Lawson if there was a theme to the animations.
"A considerable number of the screen prints showed bondage -- where women were tied in ropes," Lawson said.
A screen print of an e-mail to a DNWesthotmail.com, as quoted by Lawson, said: "Thanks for joining anime.com."
Lawson also confirmed screen prints the defense entered into evidence last week, that a computer in the office of Westerfield's house was used to access pornography on Feb. 4 at 4:47 p.m., when the defendant was busy with detectives.
Feldman mentioned last week's suggestion that the clock on the computer may have been doctored.
"Did you see any evidence that that happened on any of the computers you examined?" Feldman asked.
"No, I did not," Lawson answered. He said there's usually signs when a clock has been tampered with, such as files being accessed before they were created. Nothing like that was apparent on Westerfield's computers, he said.
Tuesday, San Diego police Detective Johnny Keene testified that he collected Westerfield from his Sabre Springs home that Monday around 3:40 p.m. and took him to the Northeastern substation in Rancho Penasquitos. The defendant remained there until approximately 11:30 p.m.
Now, throw out that bleach, let the whites go gray and enjoy your piece of mind.
We are remodeling, my husband bought some multi thread twine..it is BRIGHT orange
Would they be able to tell if the threads were from a twine used to bind her? Perhaps slicing it with a knife would leave threads...
A cop who wanted the investigation to stay at the VD's for longer.
Tracked in on a boot, that wasn't noticed or didn't come off on the tile, didn't come off anywhere else in that house but her bedroom.
From the shell casing cloud that rained down on the bedroom.
The prosecution didn't feel it important enough to even mention to the jury so maybe we should just forget it....NO WAY!!
You know I don't flame bait OR participate in flaming.
I am curious how you rationalize the credibility of the "pizza" people vs. DW's neighbors and friends?
I think the porn issue was pretty much discounted due to Neal surfing porn while DW was being interrogated.
So far, pretty much everything DW said has been testified too as being honest.
The thread is quiet now, so I thought we could have a "civil" discussion.
Amen, Rheo...it seems HUGE(ly relevent) to me....
Could it be one of the party goers dropped it ?
Were there prints on it? All weapons leave marks on the bullets (from the imperfections in the gun barrel ) so you can match the bullet to gun that fired it. Is there any evidence they attempted to do that ?
That bullet did not walk into that room..who has a gun (do they have to register guns in Ca. ?
Dorie Savage was in Danielle's bedroom on her hands and knees plucking carpet samples, looking for trace, etc, she leaves at 5:30am on 2/3..no bullet.
Dorie comes back at 10am on 2/3..stairs have been vacuumed, gate is up at entrance to Danielle's room....spent shell casing is laying on the floor.
Dorie Savage did not mention this casing at the PH...in fact, her PH testimony was a little different than her trial testimony in more ways.
Do you rememebr ?
Peace everyone...see ya
Sure seems that way.
Wonder what time they were let back in to the house and what time the vacuumers came over...did anyone watch them put up the gate?
Sorry, I directed that "peace" at us Americans, if there are any swarthy types here, "We'll kick your asses".
The gate was to keep people out and preserve evidence....preserve it, hell, it produced some out of thin air.
The running commentary will be here for you when you get back...I'm assuming you are on UCANSEE2's ping list...if not, I'll ping you to them.
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